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A few of the Members slept at the King's Head, Cirencester, 

 and spent the following day in visiting the fine old parish 

 church, now under restoration by Mr. G G. Scott, the Roman 

 pavement in Lord Bathurst's park, and the museum so rich in 

 remains of the Roman period, espacially in objects of iron, e.g., 

 sacrificial knives, a steelyard, &c. ; the so called " Bull ring," an 

 ancient Roman amphitheatre,* and the remains of the old 

 walls were inspected before leaving the ancient Corinium. 



The Third Excursion was made on 25th of June, to the Sahs- 

 bury Museum, Old Sarum, and Stonehenge. Twenty Members 

 with their friends availed themselves of the faciKties offered 

 by the Great Western Railway for excursion parties, and left 

 Bath by an early train. The principal point of attraction in 

 Salisbury, to those already acquainted with the elegant archi- 

 tectural proportions of its Cathedral with its almost unrivalled 

 spire, is the museum founded by Mr. William Blackmore, in 

 186i, and already containing a collection of remains of the 

 stone age, one of the best and most extensive in England. 

 Many thousand specimens of stone implements of all kinds, and 

 from all quarters, are here admirably arranged in historical 

 sequence, and the inquirer — who visits the series, not for the 

 purpose of scoffing, but with the higher aim of learning how 

 many things there are in the world of which he little dreams, 

 and of confessing his ignorance touching the ancient inhabit- 

 ants of the earth — is gradually led on from case to case, from 

 the archaeolithic to the neolithic periods, from the remains ot 

 the early dwellers in the caves, the flint implements from the 

 drifts of England and France, to the objects from Pfalbauten 

 of Switzerland, the more recent flint flakes and chips, down 

 to the very similar obsidian weapons of the Mexicans, in use 

 at the present day. Nay, more — for the purpose of illustra- 

 tion — the forgeries of "Flint Jack" are well represented, 



* For a drawing of this and description, see Prof. Buckman's " Remains of 

 Roman Art at Corinium," p. 12. 



