PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 7 



A short walk brought the members to the ancient 

 camp, one of the many formed as a defence against the 

 Silures. On a flat surface below, a large cubical stone, 

 known as " Huddlestone's table," was pointed out. It was 

 placed there about 300 years ago in lieu of an earlier stone 

 which marked the spot where in 81 1, Kenulph parted from 

 Eadbert, a priest, and Siren, a famous noble, after they had 

 been to the dedication of VVinchcombe Abbey. 



I conducted the party to a small opening in a sand 

 pit, near the eleventh golf hole on the hill, to which my 

 attention had been called by Mr J. W. Gray, of Stockport, 

 who was induced to write to me in consequence of having 

 once accompanied the Cotteswold Club to Sharpness, 

 when I gave an exposition of the Drifts there. 



In the summer of 189 1, when Mr Gray was staying at 

 Cheltenham, he made an excursion to Cleeve Cloud, and 

 in his letter he mentioned having found a pit in which 

 were about three feet of sandy clay and some masses of 

 hard white rock, some rounded on the under side. There 

 was some brown sand which appeared to pass or 

 become consolidated into, a hard rock. Underneath this 

 rock was a white sand which, on analysis, was found to 

 contain ninety-seven per cent, of silica. The white frag- 

 ments, some of which had the appearance of boulders, 

 contained sixty-three per cent, of silica ; but a brown one, 

 only one per cent. 



In May, accompanied by our Hon. Sec, I went in 

 search of the pit which we found with some difficulty. 

 In it, near the surface, was a large boulder resembling in 

 shape a hog's back, measuring three ft. ten in. in length, 

 and four ft. ten in. in girth, which is now in the Gloucester 

 Museum. (See plate). 



I at once recognised the sand as belonging to the 

 quartzose series, described in my paper in the Proceedings: 

 " On the Gravels of the Severn, Avon, and Evenlode, 

 and their extension over the Cotteswold Hills," published 



