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hill, which is capped with about 70 feet of Inferior Oolite — the 

 workable beds of the district. The remains of the chambered 

 tumulus, in a field to the west of the road, on a hill called Crawley 

 Hill, were inspected. Of the three sepulchral chambers recently 

 visited by the Club this one is the least perfect ; whilst those at 

 Stoney Littleton and Uley have their roofing stones intact, this has 

 merely the upright stones of the entrance, the passage, and of the 

 loculi or chambers standing. The tumulus is of a long or oval 

 shape, and a few feet shorter than that of Uley, and iu both the 

 chamber is at the east end. When opened by the Cotteswold Club 

 in 1862, it was found in its present unroofed state, having probably 

 been disturbed at some previous time. The entrance faces the 

 east, as is usually the case, and the passage runs east and west. 

 On the north side was found a diminutive chamber, which contained 

 the bones of a child, and from the fact that the other bones found 

 belonged to men and women of all ages, it appeal's to have been the 

 burial place of a family, and not merely of a single chieftain. 

 About seventeen stones remain in situ, but one of the upright 

 stones on the south side has recently fallen over ; as a fox stole 

 away from its friendly cover on the approach of the party, the 

 mischief may be laid to Reynard's account. As the Uley Tumulus 

 was only about three quarters of a mile distant on the same ridge 

 to the south, though the Club had already visited it on a former 

 occasion, yet, as some of the members present had not seen it, and 

 more especially as it was hoped and expected that the result of the 

 Club's communication as to its ruinous state had been successful, 

 and that measures had been taken to repair the damage already 

 done, a second . visit was agreed upon. Much, however, to the 

 regret of all those who had seen it last year, nothing had been 

 done for its preservation ; the large covering stone at the entrance 

 remains in its overturned position, and the chamber is being 

 gradually filled up with the debris that rolls down through the 

 entrance. What are the guardians of the Cotteswold antiquities 

 doing ? Returning to the main road, a halt was made at the fine 

 section of the Inferior Oolite beds, on the right hand, and a letter 

 from Dr. Wright, the indefatigable geologist of the Cotteswold 

 Club, was read, giving a slight sketch of the geology of the hill. A 



