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The Fourth Field Meeting took place at 
ANDOVERSFORD, 
on Tuesday, 22nd August. 
Some time in the preceding month of February some 
workmen in the employ of Mr Dent, of Sudeley Castle, came 
upon the foundations of buildings in a wood known as Spoonley 
Wood. Some tessere with Roman tiles being turned up, 
aroused the interest of Mrs Drent,—a party of excavators was 
set to work, lines of wall were found and carefully followed, 
and gradually the remains of a Roman villa were exposed to 
the light of day, after an entombment of many centuries. It 
was with especial reference to this interesting discovery that 
the Cotteswold Club assembled on the day in question. 
The morning was fine, and a good many members assembled 
at the Andoversford Station, where carriages were in waiting. 
According to their published programme their first visit should 
have been paid to Sevenhampton, but on the suggestion of one 
of the party that at Whittington was a Church and manor-house 
worth seeing, a short deflection from the direct line of route was 
made for the purpose of visiting them. In the Church there is 
some Norman work at the west end, but the principal objects 
of interest within its walls are three monumental effigies and a 
“brass.” The effigies are those of two Knights and a lady of the 
14th century. The former are habited so exactly alike that there 
can be little doubt of their being the work of the same hand. 
They are armed from head to foot in what appears to be ‘‘ cuir 
bouilli”’—not plate. The head-pieces are round, with a gorget, 
which takes the form of the “ camail;” they both wear over 
their armour a long robe or surcote, and bear on their shields 
five lozenges, three, two, and one, with a label of three points. 
These are said to belong to the family of Dz La Croupr, who 
were seized of the manor in the reign of Epwarp III. The 
“brass” is to the memory of one Ricnarp Corron (or Coron, 
as it is there spelt,) who built the manor-house, in the reign of 
Purure and Mary, and being (as it is said) killed in a duel, left 
the building incomplete, as it still remains. The house, now 
