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The Via Julia and Lansdown Tumuli. 
By A. Trick Martin, M.A., F.S.A. 
A detailed account of the excavations for which the Field 
Club provided the necessary funds, will appear in a later volume 
of the Report. It may, however, meanwhile be of interest to 
state that the work on the grass lane south of Prospect stile 
tended to confirm the theory that a part of this lane at any rate 
was a Roman road, and there appears no doubt that this road 
descended the steep face of the hill towards Weston, and that it 
is still represented by the bank of part of the sunken path. 
Excavations further to the east on the supposed continuation of 
its line through the northern outskirts of Weston produced only 
negative results. 
On Lansdown itself, excavations in the so-called Roman camp 
revealed no evidence of a Roman origin, but the road which 
passes through the British Camp overlooking North Stoke was 
cut in several places and has every appearance of being Roman. 
One of the tumuli in this Camp was opened, but nothing of 
interest was found. ‘lwo other tumuli were opened on the 
Down to the east of this Camp, and in one, notwithstanding that 
it had been previously opened, were found, besides fragments of 
pottery, bones, many small pieces of copper, or bronze, many of 
which still retained the original plating of gold. These on 
examination appear to be part of a sun disc and therefore of 
considerable interest. A photograph will be published with the 
detailed report. 
