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members visited Scratchbury and Battlesbury Camps, on the way 

 to Warminster, and most thoroughly enjoyed the walk and the fine 

 views. The Secretary on the way added many worked flints to his 

 collection from a rising ground between the two camps. 



One or two home walks are worthy of mention. On October 11 th, 

 the Monkswood Springs were visited, with the object of seeing 

 whether the dry weather had materially affected the supply of 

 water on which the inhabitants of Bath are chiefly to depend for the 

 future. Leaving the Gloucester Road the path over Charmy 

 Down was taken. Near the stile on the top of the hill, a very 

 good worked flint spear or arrow point was picked up, and several 

 pieces of chipped flint in a field near the tumulus. The topmost 

 spring which runs out from beneath the Great Oolite, and is a mere 

 surface spring, was quite dry, the lower spring still continuing to 

 Bend forth a sufficient supply to make the lane which acts as a water 

 course to the Mill unpleasantly wet. Leaving the Paper Mill on 

 the right, a path was followed through a farm yard, which led to 

 the first springs issuing from the base of the Inferior Oolite sands. 

 A good supply of water was flowing down three or four " drives" 

 recently made into the hill. Proceeding further up the valley the 

 Monkswood spring was seen in active operation. Following a steep 

 path leading into the Gloucester Road the members returned to 

 Bath, with the feeling that nature had given man an abundant 

 supply of water in the neighbouring hills if he would only take 

 trouble to make use of and husband her bountiful gifts. 



Another walk with a like object was taken on the 18th of Oct. 

 to the Batheaston Reservoirs, by way of the new oolitic bridge 

 across the Avon at Bathampton. The structure, thought light, and by 

 no means ugly, seems to lack substantiality. Notwithstanding the 

 late heavy rains, the top reservoir was quite empty, and the second 

 one had only about 2 or 3 feet of water in it. 



Lansdown Monument (which has lately been much defaced by 

 boys and others cutting their names and initials on the coat of 

 arms), and the pits on the left of the road were visited in Nov. 

 These hollows, supposed to have been made by the Parliamentary 

 forces during the battle of Lansdown, are evidently excavations 

 whence tile stones have formerly been dug, but might have subse- 



