VOL. XV (3) LOCATION AND STORY OF GLOUCESTER 255 
NOTES ON 
SOME NATURAL CONDITIONS 
AFFECTING THE 
LOCATION AND STORY OF GLOUCESTER 
BY 
F. J. CULLIS, F.G.S. 
(Delivered March 20th, 1906) 
ABSTRACT BY LECTURER 
The history of ancient Gloucester has been shewn by 
eminent local antiquaries to extend back to Roman times 
with sufficient incident and certainty to make it both 
interesting and reliable. But the very little we now know 
of its still earlier Celtic and Pre-Celtic story is fragmentary 
and obscure. 
It may be suggested that it is in the knowledge of the 
natural conditions which obtained hereabouts in those 
early days, that we must seek for the most reliable founda- 
tion for as much of our local history in that dim past as 
we may now, or hereafter, be able to establish. 
This knowledge would at least determine some of the 
limits and possibilities of the story, and it should serve to 
