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proceeded towards the northern escarpment, where a section of 
the “Gryphite Grit,” which formed an oyster bank in the old 
Oolitic sea, is well exposed. 
On the return to Cheltenham the carriages made a halt at 
the College, where a number of the members inspected the 
Museum; and the party then re-assembled at the Queen’s 
Hotel, and, to the number of about forty, sat down to dinner. 
After dinner, a paper was read by the Rev. Dr. Smrrue, 
« On the Operculum of some Silurian Gasteropods,” which will 
appear in our Transactions. 
The Second Field Meeting took place at 
CIRENCESTER, 
on Tuesday, 26th June. On their arrival, the members of the 
Club proceeded to examine some extensive excavations which 
had lately been made on ground once occupied by GREGORY’S 
nursery gardens, situated in that portion of the town of 
Cirencester formerly known as the “ Leauses,” which has proved 
prolific of Roman remains, and those of a character which point 
to that site in particular as having been occupied by the principal 
public buildings of the Roman city. Here had first been brought 
to the light of day, from beneath the accumulated rubbish of 
fourteen centuries, the basement walls of some large building 
extending over more than a quarter of an acre of ground. 
The complete destruction which whelmed all in one common 
ruin was evident from the fragmentary condition to which even 
the largest worked stones were reduced; yet enough remained 
in portions of massive cornices and volutes to show that this 
must have been a building of importance. Amongst other 
architectural relics were four stone columns about four feet 
high, and portions of others. Of smaller articles were pottery, 
with much Samian ware, and another ware of a black colour 
externally, of good form, with well worked masks. On one 
fragment of Samian was a potter’s mark (Celsiam). With these 
were portions of glass vessels, bronze implements, a boar’s tusk, 
bone skewers, and a large number of copper coins, greatly 
