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Club to a quantity of chips, knives, arrowheads, and other 

 implements in flint, found by him in a tumulus he had lately 

 opened at Nailsworth ; this tumulus was described as circular, 

 about 50 feet in diameter and 3 feet 6 inches in height. At the 

 level of the ground were marks of cremation, and in a hollow 

 in the centre was a handful of burnt human bones ; with the 

 worked flints were found portions of rude hand-made pottery ; 

 at the same time it was pointed out that the finding of these 

 flint implements in the mound did not necessarily shew that the 

 tumidus was the work of the " Fhnt Men," as worked flints are 

 found scattered broad-cast, and locally, in great abundance over 

 the Cotteswold Hills, so that now in many places it would not 

 be possible to throw up a mound of earth withovit enclosing 

 therein many specimens. In the discussion which ensued, the 

 Eev. W. S. Stmonds urged the opinion formed by Mi\ John 

 Evans and others, from similar evidences in Hampshire and the 

 Isle of Wight, that the wide dispersion of these wi'ought flints 

 from local centres was due to the transporting power of surface- 

 ice and snow in the Glacial or Sub-glacial period. 



Wednesday, 18th May.— The Club met at the Brimscombe 

 Eailway Station. The Programme for the day embraced a visit 

 to the 



EAILWAT TXJ]!WEL AT SAPPEETON, 



thence through Hay ley Wood to the 



CANAL TUNNEL 



by boat along the summit level of the Canal by Trewsbury 

 Castle and Thames Head to the Somerville Aqueduct, and thence 

 to the Agricultural College at Cirencester. Tour President 

 being engaged with Militia duties, was not able to join the Club 

 till late in the afternoon, and is indebted to your Secretary for 

 the following notes : — 



The day's proceedings were principally Geological. The route 

 as above described enabled the Club to examine several good 

 sections of the upper beds of the Great Oolite, and the com- 

 mencement of the Forest Marble beds. The first halt was at a 



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