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The second by the Rev. Dr Smithe and W. C. Lucy— 
Sections, Field Notes, and Remarks on Alderton Hill, Ashton- 
under-Hill, and Gretton.” 
The only reason why my name appears is that I accom- 
panied Dr Smithe on the occasion of our visit there many 
years since, and assisted him in making notes, but the paper is 
really his. 
As the valuable papers read at the three last meetings are 
all published in the Proceedings, I do not give an epitome of 
them, but I would call especial attention to the important 
discovery mentioned by Professor Harker of the occurrence 
of the Oxford clay at Cirencester. 
- The President’s address appears to me a fitting place to 
record objects of interest which have come to his knowledge or 
been exhibited at the Club meetings, and which do not form 
part of an especial paper. . 
This year the following are of value, and were exhibited at 
the evening meetings :— 
A Bronze Axe, sent by Sir James Campbell, which was 
found in the Forest of Dean some years since, about four to 
five feet below the surface, near Lydbrook, when a quarryman 
was “ridding” his ground to get at the stone beneath. 
Also a bronze instrument, found at Lydney in a clayey 
soil, three feet below the surface, in front of the present offices 
of the Severn and Wye Railway Company, shown by Mr G. W. 
Keeling. It corresponds with the Palstave, figured in Mr 
Boyd-Dawkins’ “ Harly Man in Britain,” page 350, fig. 117, and 
which he refers to an early period of the Bronze age. 
We are indebted to Mr G. Embrey, the County Analyst, 
for a careful analysis of the composition of these bronzes, the 
metals in which proved to be of unusual purity. 
The results are as follows :— 
LyYDNEY LypBROOK 
Copper... ee ae a, .. 200 
an... hey Se | a. ee a5 wv ASS 
Loss te , Aa ele... se wee 2 
100-00 100-00 
