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The first Field Meeting for the season was held at 



CHEPSTOW, 

 on Thursday, 20th May. The programme for the day included 

 a visit to the earthworks known as Offa's Dyke at Sedbury, 

 and the examination by the Geologists of the Cliff at Beachley, 

 which presents a twin section to that at Aust, on the opposite 

 side of the Severn. The morning proved exceedingly wet, 

 which caused the absence of many who had communicated to 

 the Secretary their intention of being present. Some 16 or 17 

 however presented themselves at the appointed rendezvous, and 

 were rewarded by the enjoyment of perfectly fine weather during 

 the remainder of the day. A brake and pair of horses conveyed 

 the excursionists to Sedbury, where the mound known as Offa's 

 Dyke is intersected by the road to Beachley. Here it was 

 announced that a telegram had been received from the Eev. 

 Mr. Ormerod, the proprietor of Sedbury Park — (it has since 

 passed out of his possession by sale) — to the effect that the 

 house would be open for the inspection of the Club, together 

 with certain Roman antiquities found in the neighbourhood of 

 the Dyke bj'- his predecessor, the late learned Antiquary and 

 Genealogist, Dr. George Ormerod, who applied all the energies 

 of his keen and well-trained observation to the unravelling of 

 the ancient traces of Roman and British occupation in the 

 neighbourhood of Chepstow, which are embodied in a series of 

 memoirs communicated to the " Archteologia" and other pub- 

 lications, and since collected in a privately printed volume, 

 under the name of " Strigulensia," from " Strigul," the ancient 

 name of Chepstow. 



Time did not admit of long delay; but the party, besides 

 inspecting the Roman relics, had an opportunity of admiring 

 the well-stocked library of goodly tomes (all since dispersed) 

 and all the pleasant surroundings of trees, park, and pleasure 

 grounds, at once so beautiful and so characteristically English, 

 to which the fresh green of spring imparted an additional charm. 

 The Section at Beachley Cliff, though closely resembling that at 

 Aust, yet presents differences which give it a certain speciality. 



