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The district was also visited on the occasion of the British 
Association holding their Meeting at Bristol in the autumn of 
last year. (September, 1875.) A large party at the end of the 
Meeting were invited by the High Sheriff, Mr. Hill, who owns a 
property on Mendip, to visit the district, and having taken 
Stanton Drew on the way, were received at Hazel Manor, and 
then visited the Roman remains at Charterhouse, and the Amphi- 
theatre, proceeding from thence to the Cheddar Cliffs. A paper 
also on the primitive population of the Mendip hills was read in 
the Anthropological Section of the British Association, By Mr. 
Phené, in which it was sought to establish from the peculiar posi- 
tion of the Barrows and other: remains, that a similar race had 
once possessed this region, to that which had produced the mounds 
figures and barrows of the Mississippi valley, and traces of which 
race are said to have been found in Scotland. Iam not going at 
present to discuss this somewhat doubtful theory, or to give the 
reins to imagination, but simply to record what may be useful for 
the Club to know, and what may conduce to the building up of 
sound and reliable history. 
In my former paper I had to observe that only remnants of 
Inscriptions on stone have been found at Charterhouse on Mendip, 
in addition to the stamped pigs and “ Lamina” of Roman lead 
found there. I have now to record that on the occasion of the 
visit of the British Association, a copy of an inscription was 
brought to me, which was said to be Roman, but which I could 
not at the time decypher. Being in some doubt as to its 
authenticity, I asked that the stone itself might be produced, and 
in a few days was gratified by having it brought to my house by 
the finder Mr. Panes, and Mr. Somers of Blagdon, to whom I 
am much indebted for calling my attention to coins and other 
Roman relics discovered at Charterhouse. The stone is still in 
my keeping, and I have taken many squeezes and sent them to 
yarious learned men skilled in Roman Epigraphy, as Professor 
Hiibner of Berlin, Dr. McCaul, the President of University 
