6 
THE SECOND FIELD MEETING 
of the Club took place on June 23rd, at 
NAILSWORTH, 
when the weather, which for the most part has favoured the 
excursions of the Club, proved on the present occasion extremely 
adverse. The programme was varied and interesting, and 
would have been enjoyable as well as instructive had the day 
been fine. A covered char-a-banc was provided, which sheltered 
those who were fortunate enough to secure seats inside. 
The first visit of the Club was to “High Beeches,” in 
Nailsworth, the residence of Mr Smiru, where were displayed 
a collection of fossils from the base of the Sands, Roman 
pottery from Woodchester, and a herbarium of local plants 
formed by Miss Smiru. The catalogue of these was very ample, 
and contained many rarities. Mr Smrru’s residence is placed 
at the junction of the Sands and Upper Lias, and openings 
had been made to show the junction of these beds. The lower 
part of the Sands is highly fossiliferous, and has yielded many 
interesting and well preserved forms to the investigations of 
Mr Smith. 
The carriage now proceeded to mount the hill which led to 
the Great Oolite plateau on the summit, which the party 
followed in the direction of Dursley, examining by the way 
quarries which have been described by Mr Wircuett, and have 
yielded to him many interesting fossil forms from the junction 
of the Great Oolite with the Forest Marble. <A long halt was 
made at “Calcot Barn,” which proved to be a structure of 
unusual interest—firstly, from its size, 140 feet in length, and 
next from the objects of interest which it contains. There are 
two incised inscriptions, one of which tells that the barn was 
struck by lightning and consumed in the early part of the last 
century, another, in Latin, records the date of its erection, viz., 
A.D. 1800, in the 29th year of Henry the Abbot. This farm was 
a demesne of the Cistercian Abbey of Kingswood. There is yet 
another curious object built into the same wall, which contains 
the foregoing inscriptions; it is a rude and much worn piece of 
