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from Bristol to Bridgwater at the third nrilestone from 

 Bristol." There are some traces of the ditch to the right of 

 the lane leading down to the brook, where it röade a small 

 bend to ascend the Hill to a field called Bear-croft, and 

 then skirting High-wood (once so called, but now cleared) 

 it appeared as a slope by the hedge through Bear-croft, into 

 a pasture field of the same name; it seems then to come 

 to the end of Deep Combe Lane, where it appears as a 

 ditch on the left, leading to the cross roads at Yanley- 

 street. 



These are the only traces which Mr. Leman and the 

 surveyors of Sir Richard could discover, and I regret to say 

 my own experience qnite confirms this statement, only my 

 friend and myself were even less successful, being however 

 strangers to the country we might have overlooked traces. 

 I have been thus particular with this portion of its 

 course in the hope of inducing some members of the 

 Society, who may reside near Bristol, to take up the in- 

 vestigation, and to ascertain if there still remain any traces 

 of this interesting dyke at these points, or if all that 

 Collinson has recorded, (and which from Ins Living of 

 Long Ashton being in that locality, he certainly mnst 

 have known) has been obliterated, It is the object of a 

 Society like ours to settle if possible disputed or nncertain 

 points, as well as to record what exists at present. 



" At Maes Knoll," says Sir R., "we stand for the first 

 time on certain ground with regard to Wansdyke, for 

 hithcrto in our progress from the Severn eastward, we 

 have been obliged to place more dependence on report, 

 than in existing proof." 



Sir R. then traces it with great success, and his great 

 acc.uracy I have for the most part personally verified, and 

 he particularly notices the fortresses lipon it, " It has some 



