have been found ; especially about three years since, when in 

 moving the soil somewhat extensively for agricultural purposes, 

 the labourers in the employ of W. P. Price, Esq., M.P., 

 came upon 86 skeletons laid side by side in two rows. An 

 account of this discoveiy was published by Mr. Price at the 

 time, in the columns of the Gloucester Journal, together with 

 a mass of evidence oral and documentary, which clearly went 

 to shew that these were the remains of a force known as " Lord 

 Herbert's Welshmen," who fell, to the number of 500 or 

 600 men, under the blows of Waller's troopers, on the 26th 

 March, 1643. 



On the way to Rudford, the attention of the party was 

 directed to the entrenchments thrown up by Masset's troops, 

 on the crest of Vineyard Hill, at Over, the outlines of which 

 are plainly distinguishable from the high road. Near Highnam 

 Court the form of a redan may still be traced. Further on, where 

 the road makes a sudden descent at Eodway HiU, the carriages 

 were stayed while the party explored the lines of entrenchment 

 on the highest point of the hill on the Highnam Estate. These 

 within the memory of old men stiU living, were known as " the 

 Welshmen's 'trunchments." The position is a commanding 

 one, and completely sweeps the approaches by the ISTewent road. 

 Barber's Bridge is a brick structure of one arch over the 

 Leadon, which at this point, and for the greater part of its 

 course, is a deep and muddy stream, passable only at certain 

 fords, which were easily guarded. At the period of the Civil 

 Wars there was no bridge at this point ; and here it was that 

 penned in by the impassable stream, and the scarcely more 

 passable ford, the unfortunate Welshmen of the Lord Herbert's 

 force are said to have been overtaken, and utterly destroyed by 

 Waller's dragoons. 



A party of labourers had been set to work in the same field 

 wherein the bodies had been found in 1868, to dig for more ; 

 and on the arrival of the Club two skeletons were exposed, 

 lying side by side, at a depth of 2^ feet; one of these was 

 headless. They were found stretched at length and in common 

 with the others previously discovered, had probably been stripped 



