PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 7 



kitchen and buttery was the minstrel's gallery, the 

 entrance to which still remains. On the east side of the 

 dais, high up in the wall, is a mask through which the 

 ladies in the ladies' gallery could watch the revelry below. 



A few yards to the east of the Manor House are the 

 ruins of Little Sodbury Church, consisting simply of a 

 porch and a fragment of the north wall with the aumbrey, 

 where the sacred vessels were kept. 



On the summit of the hill above the Manor House is 

 th(* well-known Roman Camj), with its well-preserved 

 lofty mounds and deep ditches. Enclosing the Roman 

 Camp is an earth fortification, which may be a British 

 ('amp or may be of Post-Roman date. The remains of a 

 circular luiilding and other erections are very similar to 

 remains upon Cleeve Hill, a matter which Mr C B. 

 Witts discusses in detail in his paper on Sodl)ury Cam]), 

 in the Archaeological Society's Transactions. 



A survey of the camp brought the lal)ours of the day 

 to a close, and the party drove to Wickwar, en route for 

 home. 



For its second Meeting, the Club selected a bit of 

 Cotteswold country rich in geological and antiquarian 

 interest, and aljout a score of members met at Stonehouse, 

 on Thursday, 27th June. Starting in the direction of 

 Frocester, the first halt was at a gravel-pit, just above 

 Stanley Downton< where Mr Charles Upton recounted to 

 the members his recent find, in a pot-hole in the gravel, of 

 a reindeer's antler. He remarked that it was an interesting 

 specimen, nearly two feet long, bearing upon its surfLice 

 marks which appear to be undoubtedly the result of blows 

 inflicted with some rather blunt-edged weapon at the 

 hands of man. With regard to the gravel itself, Mr S. S. 

 Buckman pointed out that it is a river accumulation, 

 deposited by the river Frome when it ran at a much 

 higher level than at the present day. The valley of the 

 Frome is now some 50 feet lower than where these beds 



