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ON SOME 



^omatt Jletraira fomto at Ration, Wilb, 



By J. Buckman, F.L.S., F.GLS., F.S.A., &c, 



Professor of Geology and Botany. 



HE village of Latton lies about six miles south of Ciren- 

 cester, the wayfarer passing through it in a journey from 

 Cirencester to the border town of Cricklade in Wiltshire, to which 

 county Latton itself belongs. 



The church is situated on the east side of the Irmin Street, 

 (the Roman road from Cirencester to Bath), and about 120 yards 

 from the road, which running through Cricklade passes over two 

 water- courses, and for a considerable distance is accompanied on 

 either side by other conduits, one of which falls into the Thames, 

 the other into the Isis. The church itself is an object of great 

 interest, especially in its semicircular nave arches which, I take it, 

 are not as supposed of Norman, but of Decorated date. 



About the village are evidences of former occupation, in rough 

 ground which would I think well repay investigation. 



The fine state of preservation of the objects now to be described can 

 scarcely fail to excite interest, while t&eir date, and the situation 

 in which they were found, may well lead to a little speculation. 

 I take advantage of the opportunity afforded me by the Earl of St. 

 Germans, through his Agent, Mr. Bravender, to lay some of the 

 facts connected with this discovery before the members of the 

 Wiltshire Arch geological and Natural History Society. 



On looking at the map it will be seen that Latton and Cricklade 

 are traversed in every direction by water-courses. These 

 traversing the flat lands of the Oxford clay, while they would favour 

 irrigation and flooding, would however render much of the meadow 



