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divided, some going to examine the well-known tumulus, 
while the rest, under the guidance of Mr WrrcneE.t, proceeded 
to examine a fine quarried section further on. Here they 
found displayed a fine vertical face of oolitic freestones, from 
40 to 50 feet in height, in which Mr Wircuet pointed out a 
narrow band, but a few inches thick, of “ Pisolite,” which 
formed a line of demarcation between the upper and lower 
freestones. Descending a few yards along a wagon-road, in 
Coaley Wood, they found a man at work with a pick-axe, who 
had been set on by Mr Wircuetx to open up a portion of the 
underlying “‘ Cephalopoda bed,” which afforded a rich harvest 
of Ammonites and a large assemblage of Conchifera. Amongst 
the more abundant Ammonites were observed—A. variabilis 
@ Orb, A. dispansus, Lyc; A. radians, Rein; and single specimens 
only of A. insignis, Schub; and A. Discoidea, Ziet ; were found. 
It had been intended to cross over to Cam Longdown, but rain 
coming on, this part of the programme was not carried out, 
and the party proceeded direct to Dursley, where dinner 
awaited them at the “Old Bell.” After dinner Mr WircHett, 
on the invitation of the President, proceeded to give some 
account of his work at the tumulus, which he had been 
engaged in opening in Randwick Wood. The excavations 
-showed an oblong horned barrow, with dry walling outside, and 
a single wall running down the centre, having two walls 
radiating therefrom at different angles, and at some distance 
from each other. The small end of the barrow had at some 
time been quarried for stone, and the tradition runs that the 
workmen came upon a human body covered by flat stones, after 
which they abandoned the work. Outside of the dry walling, 
the workmen employed by Mr Wircuent came upon portions 
of four or five human bodies, heaped confusedly together, 
which, from the fact that they were deficient of their due 
proportion of heads and limbs, were adjudged to have been at 
some time moved from their original place of deposit and re- 
buried. Mr Wrrcnet. stated that he had already expended 
about £5 on the work, whereupon the Club agreed that the 
expenditure of an additional £5 should be sanctioned, and 
