Tl;e remains of the Priory of Black Cluniac Monks, -with its 

 (xateway Tower covered with American creeper, tinged with 

 autnnm brown, was passed on the road to Stoke Sub-Hamden. 

 Mr. Walters, an octogenarian antiquary of the neighbourhood, 

 was the expositor of the peculiar features of the most archi- 

 tecturally interesting Church in the County of Somerset ; and 

 jiointed out with the fondness of one who had spent many an 

 hour inside and outside its walls, all the curious and multifarious 

 details. A wet afternoon permitted only a glance at the well- 

 known Ham Hill quarries, or the extensive Roman Camp on the 

 summit of the hill— amphitheatre, vallum and ditch were, how- 

 ever, inspected under umbrellas by one or two of the more 

 energetic— but the geological portion of the day was a blank ; 

 an amusing adventure on the road to Martock Station scarcely 

 compensating for the dampness on spirits and outer garments 

 from the persistent down pour. 



The minor excursions and walks of the Club have been well 

 sustained and of varied interest. 



Amongst others may be briefly ennumerated a few of the 

 principal ones : — 



The White Horse, near Westbury, second only to that on the 

 Berkshire Downs, was visited. Bratton Camp, close at hand, 

 supposed to be British, with its double rampart and deep ditch, 

 and the large oblong barrow in its midst, was crossed on the way 

 to the grand old Abbey Church of Edington, the members 

 returning to Bath vid Eood Ashton and Trowbridge. The Rail- 

 way cutting at Pensford was the object of another walk, to 

 inspect some bones of ox, dog, and horse, recently discovered in 

 the Red Marl, twenty feet below the surface, and in the old bed 

 of the river, during excavations carried out for the piers of a 

 railway bridge, the bones of the ox and horse were remarkable 

 foi- their small size ; a curious brass thumb ring was also found 

 here with two letters engraved, supposed to be Saxon. Bury 

 Ditches or Bury Camp, near Colerne. At Bury Camp a curious 



