PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB lOI 



conclusion from these discoveries is that men roamed 

 over Gloucestershire, hunting for animals now extinct, 

 with weapons of flint and stone, at a time when the 

 Severn Valley as we know it had not been scooped out, 

 and the North Sea and English Channel did not exist. 

 Following them came the men whose remains are found 

 in caves, then the Iberians who were buried in long 

 barrows, and then the Celtic race, whose remains are 

 interred in round barrows, and who peopled Britain when 

 Julius Csesar landed upon our shores. 



In the working out of these problems of the prehistoric 

 period, the Cotteswold Club has taken a prominent part. 

 To the late Rev W. S. Symonds, rector of Pendock, 

 belongs the honour of having discovered undoubted relics 

 of man in King Arthur's Cave and Bannerman's Hole, on 

 the banks of the Wye, and thus made a valuable and 

 corroborative contribution to our knowledge of men of 

 the Cave period. The well-preserved long barrow near 

 Birdhp was found by Mr G. B. Witts, and in opening and 

 describing it he had the invaluable help and guidance of 

 Professor RoUeston, one of the greatest authorities on the 

 subject. A long barrow at Nymphsfield was opened by 

 the late Professor Buckman, and the Club also undertook 

 the cost of opening barrows in other parts of the county. 

 The ancient camps on the Cotteswolds were carefully 

 surveyed and mapped by Mr G. F. Playne, who also was 

 the first to discover pit-dwellings on the commons above 

 Stroud, and the value of which Professor Rolleston was 

 one of the first to recognise. 



THE ROMAN OCCUPATION 



When the complete story of the Roman occupation of 

 Gloucestershire is written, the work done and recorded 

 by members of the Cotteswold Club will occupy a large 

 space. Fifty years ago our knowledge of the Romans in 



