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most interest now, namely, the small chamber that can be entered by an in- 

 conspicuous opening on the north side, was not discovered until the following 

 year — 1871. 



Fig. I. — Avening Church 

 (C. I'pton, p)ioto.) 



A few hundred yards to the north of the tumulus, but on the other side 

 of the road, is the " Long Stone " (text-figure 2). The portion above ground 

 measures about 7 feet. " There were formerly two other similar stones near; 

 one of them has entirely disappeared, and the other — a much smaller one — is 

 incorporated in the wall dividing the field from the road. The hollow immedi- 

 ately to the southward of ' The Long Stone ' is known as ' Woful Dane's 

 Bottom,' and there is reason to believe that at this spot was fought a great 

 battle between the Saxons and the Danes in the year A.D. 837." ' 



Time only permitted of a brief inspection of Minchinhampton Church, 

 with its monument to Bradley, the celebrated Astronomer-Royal, and 

 the party proceeded on to the Common, where Mr Northam Witchell com- 

 municated the substance of his paper, read to the Club some eleven years 

 back, on the Danish, British, and Roman camps of the locality. 2 He added 



1 See C. Upton in " The Stroud Valley Illustrated," 2nd cd., p. 85. 



2 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F. C, vol. xiii., pt. i (1899), pp. 53 — 56. 



