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Cordial thanks were returned to their host and Bath was reached 
in due time. 
April 28th, 1875.—For the following notes on a bye-excursion to 
Sodbury, the Club is indebted to Messrs. Ellacombe and Talbot. 
The weather was very favourable for the excursion, and the 
programme was carried out most satisfactory. Twenty-six members 
joined the Excursion. The first stage was by carriages from Bath 
to Cross Hands ; here the party was met by Rev. J. Blackburn, 
Vicar of Horton, who conducted them to the fine Camp that 
lies between Cross Hands and Old Sodbury, and read them 
a short paper on the history of the Camp. From this it ap- 
peared that the Camp is of undoubted Roman work, 900 feet long 
and 600 wide, protected by a double ditch and agger on three 
sides, the fonrth side being sufficiently guarded by the natural 
steepness of the ground. There is one entrance on the east, there 
are also two others on the north and south, but these are now 
supposed to be only made for agricultural purposes. The name 
“Sodbury,” or the South Camp, distinguishes it from the “ Castle 
Camp,” a mile to the northward. It seems to be one of the camps 
that Tacitus mentions as formed by the Propretor Publius Ostorius 
(A.D. 51) to protect the sides of the Severn from the ineursion of 
the Silures. “Detrahere arma suspectis, cinctosque castris 
Antonam et Sabrinam fluvios cohibere, parat.”—Annaliwm Lib xi. 
cap. 31. The Camp commands a magnificent view on the 
southern Vale of Gloucestershire; it was afterwards occupied 
by Queen Margaret, and then by Edward IV. previous to the 
battle of Tewkesbury. A few Roman coins have been found, 
one of which is said to have given the name of Cross Hands 
to the Inn. 
From the Camp the party descended to the ruins of the ancient 
Church of 8: Adeline. Of this the only remains are the tower door- 
way and buttress and two grand old yews, now commonly called 
Tyndale’s yews. The remainder of the materials were used in the 
building of the New Church of Old Sodbury in a more convenient 
