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oolite coral, the Isastraea, were found lately dug out from a 

 recently made drain. A lean-to on the west of the old 

 Manor House, which once sheltered Monmouth on his 

 way to Philip's Norton, and is now a pubhc-house, having 

 been blown down, exposed several windows of the original 

 house. 



On Tuesday, 31st March, 1868, the Camp on Clifton Down, 

 and the two camps on the opposite side of the River Avon on 

 each side of Stokesleigh Slade, commonly called Nightingale 

 Valley, were visited. The new road made to the bridge has 

 cut through the three ramparts of the camp, called Bower 

 Walls, nearest the bridge on the Somerset side. These three 

 defensive works are still marked by a corresponding number 

 of undulations in the wall bounding the road, which has here 

 obliterated the defences. The area of the Camp being required 

 for villas, another road carried round the north side of the 

 precipice overhanging Nightingale Valley has also destroyed 

 the traces of the rampart on the north side, and the earth 

 works between these two roads to the west are being carried 

 away for the lime and stone they contain, and will soon be 

 totally destroyed. The interior of the innermost and highest 

 of these defences is very interesting, the core of the earth 

 work being composed of lime and stones, with the remains of 

 burned faggots, the whole being formed into a compact mass 

 in the heart of the rampart, which is made of loose stones, 

 overgi'own in places with vegetation. The defence was thus 

 rendered very strong and could not easily be cut through, 

 and the manner of constructing these defensive works by the 

 aid of fire and slaking the burned hme, which was again 

 covered with stones, gives a good idea of the rough and ready 

 defensive works of an early age, and somewhat resembles the 

 construction of the vitrified forts found in Scotland and in 

 Brittany. These defences were carefully examined by the 

 Club, and sketches made of the core of the rampart. The 



