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Christian era. They have thus been handed down, probably 
through the monks, and have subsisted as a magical formula 
from the Roman down to the present time. 
Some of the party went to see the gravels at the Barton 
pits, but found them so full of water that the gravels which 
they went to examine were not within reach. In Vol. V., 
p- 275, of the “Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club,” there 
is a paper by Mr. Tutstetron Dyer on Flint Flakes found at 
the Barton pits under the turf which immediately overlies the 
gravel. One of these flint implements, with the authentication 
of the British Museum attached, was shown in one of the 
cases at the Museum, but its artificial character was much 
doubted by some. 
Time did not admit of a very prolonged delay at the 
Museum, and the party, filling two brakes, proceeded along 
the Churn Valley in the direction of North Cerney. By the 
way, two halts were made, at Stratton to examine a quarry 
in the “ Forest Marble,” and at Baunton to inspect a section 
in the “Great Oolite,” which yielded to Mr. WircHEeLt some 
pretty specimens of “ Hyboclypus agariciformis,” and a large 
form of ‘“ Dueina.”? At Perrotsbrook the party left their 
carriages, and under the guidance of Mr. G. B. Wrrts, 
proceeded to examine some very extensive lines of entrench- 
ment, which are noticed by the late Mr. G. F. Puayye in his 
paper on “ The Ancient Camps of Gloucestershire,” in Vol. VI. 
of the “Transactions of the Cotteswold Club.” These lines 
have been traced by Mr. Puayne for the distance of a mile 
and a half; they can hardly, therefore, have been constructed 
solely for military purposes, but rather as a place of security 
for an entire tribe with its families and cattle. 
About a mile beyond Perrotsbrook is North Cerney, which 
village was the limit of the excursion. The church proved to 
be a most interesting structure, though a thorough scraping 
which it had recently undergone had removed all the rust of 
antiquity from thé interior. It is in its origin a Norman 
Church, dating from the early part of the 12th century. The 
chancel arch and the northern doorway are all that now remain 
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