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Having reached the summit level, a wide undulating plateau — 
succeeds, with charming peeps down well wooded coombes. 
Passing the beautiful demesne of Lyppiatt on a road bordered 
by noble sycamores, Bisley was presently reached, where a halt 
of some duration was made. In the churchyard is a 13th 
century cross, in good preservation, which has been figured: by 
Lysons, and likewise by C. Pootry, in his “Old Crosses of 
Gloucestershire.” Below the churchyard five perennial springs 
leap forth from the clay-beds of the “Fuller’s Earth.” These 
beds, which are a part of the “‘Great Oolite” series, are the 
prevalent source of water supply all along these Cotteswold 
coombes, where their position may be pretty accurately traced 
by the cottages scattered along this line of water-bearing strata. 
After some homely refreshment at a smail inn, the Red 
‘Lion, the party with their conveyances proceeded on towards 
Miserden. The road passed through Trougham or Druffham 
Field, where quarries were examined in the “ Stonesfield 
Slate,” and some traces of plant remains were found. Attention 
was directed to a tumulus which had been cut through many 
years before, in clearing the ground for the erection of a cottage, 
when many bones were said to have been found and removed. 
Proceeding onwards they arrived at a spot marked in the 
Ordnance Survey as “The Camp.” Here they halted to examine 
two round barrows by the side of the road, within an enclosure. 
Both have been cut into at some former period and thoroughly 
ransacked. Three or four large stones, which formed the 
entrance of a chambered tumulus, are all that now remain. 
There is now no trace of a “Camp,” but the name of the 
hamlet, joined to the fact that a cluster of cottages in the 
valley below is called “The City,” is very suggestive of the 
former existence of some place of importance, all traces of 
which have long since been swept away and forgotten. At 
Whishanger, the road to Miserden crosses a great line of 
“ fault,” by which the “Great Oolite” beds are thrown down 
250 feet against the base of the “Inferior Oolite.” The beds 
were searched for fossils, and examples were found of “‘ Hybo- 
clypus Miilleri” and “ Trigonia Paine.” 
