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carried round the head. This peculiarity and the ornament 

 are supposed to be purely Celtic. Separated from this little gem 

 of a Church on the W. by a deep ditch and vallum are the 

 remains of the Castle, of which but a small portion of the wall 

 remains. The members mounted the steep sides of the keep* 

 whence a view of the Black Mountains can be seen, but the 

 atmosphere was too hazy, and finally paying a visit to the site 

 of the Priory founded by Hugh Fitz Norman in 1134, saw only 

 a barn and a not altogether obliging female native, and then 

 mounted the break for Pontrilas. One of their party was left 

 here with his bag to await the arrival of a friend from some 

 distant spot (he hardly knew where) to pick him up — and he 

 may be there still. The rest drove merrily on to Pontrilas, 

 took the train, ran through Abergavenny, Pontypool road, and 

 the Severn Tunnel, and reached Bath at 4.20, after a two days' 

 delightful and instructive excursion. 



July \~th, 1888. — The Club was most fortunate in its excursion 

 to Clevedon and Portbury, Tuesday last having been one of the 

 very few sunny days in the midst of the recent wet and gloomy 

 weather. The Great Western Eailway having by their arrange- 

 ments made the journey to Clevedon very pleasant, a large 

 break received the party, numbering 18, at that station, and 

 trundling merrily through East Clevedon rounded " Sir 

 Abraham Elton's" hill, a woody spur of Mountain Limestone, 

 and entered the rich pastoral valley, busy with its haymakers, 

 running up like a grassy straight between two rocky headlands, 

 to Portishead in the hazy distance. Passing Walton-in-Gordano, 

 with its picturesquely-situated castle on the hill above, the first 

 halt was made at the church of Weston-in-Gordano, well known 

 for its almost unique ground plan, consisting of nave, chancel, 

 tower at the south-east end of the nave, with chapel E. of the 

 tower and S. of the chancel, curious south porch and sanchts- 

 bell cot over the nave gable. Entering by the south porch the 

 singular gallery over the inner doorway gave rise to the usual 



