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Flaxley Abbey, in which the monks stored their fish, have, for 
obvious sanitary reasons, been drained, and are now represented 
by the beautiful green meadow in front of the house. 
“Gun’s Mills” were next visited, now paper mills, but marking 
the site of a cannon foundry, formerly the property of the 
crown. From this point the Club proceeded to “Tibbs Cross,” 
at which place the Roman paving is visible under the present 
road-metal in many places, particularly the margin stones— 
like those so well seen by the Club last year in another part of the - 
Forest—and in one part of this road the central paving itself 
can be well distinguished, the stones being apparently derived 
from the “Old Red Conglomerate.” These marks of Roman 
occupation were examined by the Club with great interest. 
Passing on from this spot, the carriages soon arrived at 
Littledean, and here, at a roadside hostelry, a slight lunch was 
disposed of. Proceeding to the crest of the hill, in a field near 
Dean Hall, the Club examined the small circular Camp which 
is noticed by Mr. Prayye in the last number of our “ 'Trans- 
actions,” where he describes it as not unlike a large circular 
tumulus, with a ditch six feet deep, surrounding a mound 
twelve feet high, with an enclosed area of seventeen yards in 
one direction by twenty-two in another. There is an entrance 
from the south-east, and the outer sides are steep, being from 
eighteen to twenty feet above the ditch. It is the smallest 
Camp in the county; and it is noticeable that the enormous 
strength of the rampart is very much out of proportion to the 
enclosed area. There are many hill forts of this kind elsewhere 
in England and Wales; this was probably used as a stronghold 
for a small force, and probably as a signalling station. No 
doubt it was British, that is a Camp of the Silures; and the 
road down to Newnham traverses the line of what must have 
been a British trackway to the ford or crossing-place of the 
Severn at Arlingham. Tacrrtvs, describing this kind of strong- 
hold formed and occupied by Caractacvs, says: “They fortified 
themselves on steep hills, and wherever there was any possibility 
of access they constructed great banks of stones.’’ In this 
curious Camp the stones of which the ramparts are constructed 
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