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Mr. Niblett described and exhibited these coins, together with a 

 ■Roman horse-shoe, which he had found near the spot on which he 

 was standing, about 1870 ; it was remarkable for the smallness of 

 its size and had the usual three nail holes on each side. At the 

 west end was the original Koman road forming the boundary 

 of the parish." 



After this general idea of the camps, the magnificent view 

 from this the highest point of the hill, 800 feet high by recent 

 survey, was pointed out. On the south-east were seen the 

 jutting wooded headlands of Selsley, Frocester, Cam Long 

 Down and Stinchcombe, with Standish Park in the immediate 

 foreground to the south. To the south-west could be distinguished 

 in the haze the promontories of Aust Cliff jind Sharpness ; then 

 across the Severn appeared the Forest of Dean with the Welsh 

 Mountains, a gloomy and indistinguishable mass in the far 

 distance ; May Hill and the Malvern Range jagged and misty ; 

 Tewkesbury Abbey left to the imagination, and the vale and 

 city of Gloucester just below ; the lias hill of Robin's Wood, in the 

 foreground to the north-east ; altogether a view rarely surpassed, 

 and which was seen under more favourable conditions than might 

 have been the case considering the recent unfavourable weather. 



A rather speedy return was made along the north brow of the 

 hill to the friendly tent, and members were seen swarming down 

 the broken ground with alarming intrepidity; the more staid 

 portion of the members arriving at the tent somewhat late, found 

 the more youthful and energetic already seated around the table 

 fully occupied and hungrily intent. 



After the Vice-President in a few appropriate words had 

 thanked Mr. and Mrs. Niblett for their kind consideration in 

 supplying the hungry with so bountiful a repast, Mr. Scarth drew 

 attention to the admirable plans which Mr. Niblett had made of 

 the camps, one of which served to enclose a side of the tent in its 

 ample folds, and spoke of the advantage to archaeology when 

 ' landed proprietors like Mr. Niblett not only cared for and 

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