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more to say about this hereafter. The top of the hill was at last 

 reached and a rapid descent made to Lodge hill over the southera 

 slope of the Mendips. Here there was time for a short rest waiting 

 for the train, which some used by inspecting the village cross and 

 the church, with its northern Norman doorway intersected by 

 a late Perpendicular buttress. Time did not allow of visiting the 

 interior, but it seemed to have very old-fashioned arrangements. 

 By means of the Cheddar Valley and Midland Railways Bath was 

 reached by half-joast eight. 



The following notes upon Maesbury and the tumps and ex- 

 cavations passed in the day's ramble have been sent in by Dr. 

 Bird to the Secretary. 



Maesbury camp seems to be a very ancient one, probably constructed 

 by the same race of people as those that buried their dead in long 

 Barrows, and as the constructors of the unhewn stone circles, such as 

 those of Abury and Stanton Drew at a time when only flint stone and 

 wooden implements were used. In its construction it must have 

 occupied for some time large numbers of people only possessing such 

 rude implements. Passing from that spot to Pen Hill a round 

 Tumulus was observed in a field on the left hand side of the road, and 

 upon this hill there were several traces of ancient earth works or 

 ditches. The hill was crossed by a stone wall and on the east side of 

 the wall from which a good view of Wells Cathedral was obtained, 

 there were two Tumuli, one a round one about sixteen yards across and 

 almost adjoining it a long one of about forty yards long by twelve yards 

 wide, both undisturbed ; a rabbit had made a hole in the east end of 

 the long one, a fair proof that its centre contained hollows. Long 

 Barrows vary greatly in their structure, this one differed from the 

 heart-shaped, horned barrows, common on the Cotteswolds around 

 Cheltenham, being narrower and not varying in width or height, and 

 having no lai-ge stones upon it, or anything like stone walling. On 

 passing over the common from this point to the south-east we came 

 upon some pits, like the remains of old pit residences, on the outcrop of 

 Old Eed Sandstone ; and in crossing the road, the adjoining field on 

 the Limestone formation was rendered uneven by such pits. Many 

 together in threes, fours and more. In some places they looked like old 

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