48 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1904 
The watercourse on the north side of the island is now 
culverted, and passes under the Railway Inn, on the north 
side of the Wagon-Works; whilst the channel, surmised 
to have been formed as a feeder to the Canal, runs through 
the Midland Railway yard, lying to the north of the Rail- 
way Inn and the Wagon-Works. 
A few remarks on the stones, etc., that were found may ~ 
be of interest. 
The stones included those of Old Red Sandstone, 
Lias limestone, Inferior-Oolite limestone, and pebbles of 
quartz and flint. Many of the stones, especially those of 
Lias limestone, had probably been in use as road “ sets” : 
their faces being rubbed smooth, and in some cases 
grooved, where wheeled traffic had been concentrated. 
The horse-shoes are apparently of different dates; those 
thickly encrusted through oxidation being possibly Roman 
or Medieval. There is a somewhat similar one in the 
Gloucester Museum, described as Medizval. 
The other horse-shoes may be of the 16th or 17th 
century. They are very wide and flat. 
A curious implement, possibly a meat-hook from the 
~ Priory, was also found in the clay. : 
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