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members taking the train to their different destinations ; and 

 thus terminated one of the most delightful days ever enjoyed 

 by the Cotteswold Club. 



The Third Field Meeting for the season took place on 

 Wednesday, 23rd July, at 



WESTON-SUPER-MAEE, 

 with a view to the examination of the geology between that 

 place and Swallow Cliff. The programme embraced a visit 

 to the ancient entrenchment on Worle Hill, the village of 

 Kewstoke, with its Church and fine Norman doorway; the 

 ancient Priory at Wood-spring, and the "raised beach" at 

 SwaUow Cliff. 



The head-quarters of the Club were fixed at the Eoyal Hotel, 

 Weston. The point first reached in the day's excursion was 

 the entrenchment on Worle Hill, immediately overhanging the 

 town. This large and important work belongs to those examples 

 of rude fortification which, from the very artlessness of their 

 construction, have been referred to times the most remote. The 

 fortress at Worle Hill resembles in a remarkable degree that at 

 Carn Goch, near Llandilo Yawr, in Caermarthenshire, both in 

 the mode of construction of the vallum, formed of loosely piled 

 stones, and in the remarkable shelter-pits formed in the thick- 

 ness of the rampart, evidently as a protection for the defenders. 

 The ramparts are strongest at the east end of the enclosure, 

 which was the most easily accessible. At this point three lines of 

 fortification are distinctly traceable, the steep sides of the hill 

 rendering access at other points more difficult. The interior of 

 the fortified space contains a great number of hut circles. 

 These were carefully examined some years ago by a Committee 

 of the Somerset Archseological and Natural History Society, 

 when some human remains and portions of iron implements 

 were discovered. These cii'cles seem to have been formed by 

 making excavations a few feet in depth, the sides of which 

 were built up of loose stones, with a framework of wattle or 

 wicker, probably roofed over with turf. On the side of the 

 camp furthest from Weston, there is a remarkable pass leading 



