ornamented iron ring, overlaid with bronze, supposed to be 

 Roman and to be the portion of some horse trappings, was picked 

 up by one of the members, and is now deposited in the Museum 

 of the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Ditteridge and 

 the Box quarries, Monkton Farleigh (where the Secretary pointed 

 out an " infilling" of rolled and angular flints in the Great Oolite, 

 near Brown's Tower), the old Manor House at South Wraxall, 

 Berkeley Church and Castle, and Keynsham, have all been seen ; at 

 the latter place, remains of the old Abbey, founded in 11 70, have 

 lately come to light, and a great quantity of carved stone work, 

 finials, canopies, and fragments of the 13th century statuary with 

 the gilding still remaining, have been found by the workm<-ii 

 and preserved by a builder close at hand, A portion of the 

 Abbey with its encaustic tiles in good i^reservation, the beautiful 

 green bordering as fresh as when laid down, still remains in situ. 



The report of some astonishing discoveries of bones in the 

 railway cutting under Maes Knoll led to an excursion in that 

 direction, and the members were enabled to record the fac,t that 

 they were the remains probably of some Roman soldiers, a 

 Roman red earthenware vessel being found associated with them. 

 The interments, three in number, were made about two feet 

 beneath the surface, in the clay of the Upper Lias, which attains 

 a considerable thickness in that part. The workmen considered 

 one of the skeletons to be of unusual size. 



And finally, the Club has been enabled through the kind 

 assistance of antiquarian friends and others to uncover an ex- 

 tensive Roman Villa at» Cold Harbour Farm, near Tracey Park, 

 the proprietor of which had kindly given his consent to the 

 work. Portions of two Hypocausts were exposed but no tesse- 

 lated pavement. The villa, judging from the style of the masonry, 

 appears to have been of very late date. Many curious articLs 

 have been found and much pottery, all of which are deposited 

 in the Museum of the Literary and Scientific Institution of Bath. 

 As our Vice-President, with the aid of Mr. Irvine, has promised 

 lis a paper on this subject further details are unnecessary. 



