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at the Corn Hall. After dinner, Mr. Platne gave an account 

 of his researches on Hampton Common and Eodborough Hill, 

 on the site of the supposed pit-dwellings which are visible there 

 in such numbers. He produced a quantity of rude pottery, two 

 flints, and several stones, and pebbles of foreign origin, which 

 he had found in the pits, and which he regarded as evidence of 

 human occupation. 



Upon this occasion several visitors were present, including 

 the Secretary, and several members of the Bristol Naturalists' 

 Club. 



The last Field Meeting of the season took place on Tuesday, 

 81st August, at 



WOTTON"-UNDEE-EDGE. 



The members assembled at the Charfield Station where a 

 break and four horses were in waiting, and though the lanes 

 were of the narrowest and the hills of the steepest the cattle 

 and the coachman were quite up to the mark, and a pleasanter 

 mode of travelling could not have been devised. The first 

 point of interest in the programme was Kingswood Abbey, of 

 which only the gatehouse remains, date fifteenth century. In 

 a room over the entrance arch, a paper v/as read by Mr. 

 Peitchett on the history of the Abbey, originally founded, 

 as appears by Dugdale, in 1139, for Cistercian Monks from 

 Tintern. After many vicissitudes, moving to Haselden first, 

 and then to Tetbury, they returned in 1170 to Mireford in 

 Kingswood, at a distance of a mile-and-a-half from their first 

 place of settlement. Both establishments appear to have been 

 maintained, and a road communicating between them known 

 as the "Trench Eoad " or "Trench Lane," is still traceable. 

 Nothing now remains of the buildings at Mire wood ; a chapel 

 which now stands on the site being apparently that formerly 

 attached to the dwelling-house of the Thynnes, now entirely 

 obliterated. 



After leaving Kingswood the party sej)arated, some going up 

 the Wortley Hill by a deep ferny lane to some quarries on the 

 summit, while the rest proceeded in the break to Ozleworth, 

 a lovely drive by Alderley and Newark. The church at 



