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A paper was read by Mr. Playne " On the Ancient Camps in 

 Gloucestershire." Their number he gave as about 80, of these 

 he had visited more than 60, and with a large number of them 

 he was of opinion the Romans had little or nothing to do. 



Mr. Bellows had prepared a paper upon " Offa's Dyke," 

 which there was not time to read, but it appears in our 

 " Transactions." 



The second Field Meeting which, by previous concert, had 

 been arranged should be a joint one with the Woolhope Club, 

 was held at 



STMONDS YAT, 



for Ross and Monmouth, on Tuesday, 15th June. 



Not having been present on that occasion, I am indebted to our 

 Secretary for an account of the day's proceedings, which seem 

 to have been sadly marred by foul weather, which however does 

 not appear to have acted as a deterrent, more than 30 members 

 of the Cotteswold Club having presented themselves at the Ross 

 Station, where they were joined by a strong contingent of 

 Herefordshire Naturalists. The Botanists of the party seem to 

 have found at Symonds Yat a rich locality for rare plants. 

 A party of Cotteswold Geologists took the pathway leading 

 through the wood to English Bicknor, to inspect the celebrated 

 *' Boulder," said to be of Coal-measure Sandstone, and if so, to 

 have been transported to its present position by the agency of 

 ice, at what was probably a late stage of the Glacial epoch, and 

 at a period when the surface of the country was much the same 

 in its general outline as at present. But on rejoining their 

 friends these daring sceptics did not scruple to declare their 

 belief that this "Boulder" was in truth no "Boulder" at all, 

 but a mass of " Millstone Grit," of which there was plenty in 

 a quarry hard by, and with which the hill appeared to be capped. 

 *'As however," adds my informant, "the 'Boulder' is now 

 •* classical, and has heretofore been examined and described by 

 " very accomplished Geologists, we will not lay too much stress 

 *' upon an opinion formed from a very hasty examination, made 

 " in the intervals of a ra,ttling thunder-storm." 



