Colonel Bennett, the proprietor, had arranged for inspection a collection of interesting objects found in the Camp, including horseshoes, bones, Boman coins, querns, and a stone in the form of a hatchet.

The Rev. H. W. Winwood described the bones as those of bos longifrons, deer and swine.

Mr. Stevens stated that the quern was of an early and very interesting form.

Mr. James Paeker thought the stone hatchet very doubtful. One very like it from Cambridge had been recently examined by himself, and Dr. Rollestone, and they had come to the conclusion that it had never been manufactured.

A gentleman present observed that two stone hatchets, very similar, had lately been found near Congresbury.

Mr. Jones remarked, that he believed there was no classical authority to prove that the Romans ever used horseshoes. There certainly was no Latin word for horse shoe, and he did not know that any illustration of their use occurred in any ancient sculpture. The only instance he had himself seen, was a faint trace on one hoof of one of the horses in a higa, basso relievo, in the Museum at Avignon, but this he was sure was accidental. Columella, the great Roman authority on rural affairs, in his teatise on the choosing and rearing of horses, makes no reference to horseshoes. It was, therefore, he thought by no means certain that the horseshoes were of the same date with the Roman coins.

Having enjoyed the magnificent view, embracing a dis trict, it is said, with a radius of 30 miles, the company assembled on the camp under the presidency of Sir W Medlycott.

The Lord Bishop pointed out how that the ancient oc cupants had, in this camp, according to their usual custom, taken advantage of the natural formation of the ground in constructing this strong-hold.

The Rev. Prebendary Scarth (age 55), at the request of the president, described the camp and its fortifications. He remarked that the subject was one which was full of in terest, but which it was very difficult to say anything certain about. He thought that all he could say, after examining this camp, and looking round the fortifications of the encampment, and comparing it with the other camps of a similar kind in this country, but more especially in South Wales, and all that line of country which was occupied by the Britons previous to the Roman conquest, when Caractacus so nobly defended his country—having himself examined those defences, he was inclined to think that everything showed this to have been an ancient British earthwork; and he thought the remains found within it tended to confirm that opinion. The chief features of this were the very strong ramparts with which it was surrounded, and more especially the entrances. The entrances were particularly curious from the way in which they were fortified, showing that they were of particular importance. He knew of no camp which showed the entrances so well defined as this, except that wonderful work. Maiden Castle, near Dorchester, which was one of the noblest and most wonderful works that existed in this country. He thought the earthwork they were now ex amining was only second to that. It did not appear to have had any Roman camp within in, as was sometimes found. There was a Roman camp within the British for tification at Clifton, for example. Again, the construction of the ramparts here, so far as he had been able to examine them, was very different from what they found at Clifton, where there was an inner core composed oflime and stone, a mass which could not be cut through.

Among the things found in one of those pits was a comb. which, it was shown, could not have been Roncian, but be longed to a very early time. It was made of a flat bone a sheep's, he believed —ground down, and the teeth were cut in the end, not in the side of it. Well, he believed that if the turf were taken off there would be found scores, if not hundreds, of those pits, for they were very close together. He was of opinion that the pits were made at various times. He had seen one instance where a pit was begun to be excavated, and evidently abandoned, because it cut into the circle of another, which was an older pit, but still not so old that they could think fit to dig into it. He made these notes because he dared say they might readily find such pits here, and he hoped it would be tried. It was only to take an iron bar and try over the ground.

The Bishop inquired what Mr. Barnes thought those pits were for?

Mr. Barnes: Refuse pits, and not dwellings.

The Bishop: But that was one of the common forms of the earliest dwellings —pits where the circles touched one another, and I suppose were covered over with branches. Is that not the earliest acknowledged form of British dwellings ?

The Rev. Canon Meade mentioned Pen pits; and another gentleman referred to those of Worle.

Mr. Barnes said they were filled with what was no doubt animal and vegetable matter; and the farmer found it very productive when applied as manure. Proceeding to offer a few notes on the “ Stone Age/’ he said it so happened that speech tallied with history in so many points, and that our history as well as the Celtic speech ran back to the stone age. Now, we had the word flint, and the word chisel ; both these words be longed to the stone age, and expressed a solid Saxon image. Thus, the Teutonic word for arrow was flean (to fly), and et was a diminutive added, making or flint ; therefore flint meant arrow. Chesil —such as the Chesil Beach near Weymouth—meant hard stone, pebble, or flint ; therefore that word was used when a chisel, or ceosely was of stone. The word hammer, meant a hard knob, a stone. These words, and many others he might mention, went back to the stone age, and were proofs of the Celtic age of our race.

Mr. Stevens gave a detailed description of the specimens, and also referred to discoveries at another place near Salis bury, and in the Hebrides, and at Grimes^ Graves, Norfolk. He enlarged at some length upon the interesting evidences of ancient excavations for flints and chalk. The pits at Salisbury were clearly not of that form. He would give them a brief statement of the means by which those discoveries had been made. The ground was trenched for garden purposes, and they found all over the field that black patches occurred. The idea was that they had been burning weeds there. The owner cut into the black earth, and he was not satisfied with that explanation. He went to work and found himself in a chamber of a bee-hive shape, not at all of the straight sides which were found at Maiden Castle and elsewhere. It was a chamber of earth, about six feet in height, and eight feet in diameter. He not only found that, but on working out one corner he worked into a second, a third, and a fourth chamber of similar shape, and all communicating with each other ; and there was likewise a semi-recess, with what object he was not prepared to say. In the course of some recent excavations it was found that the aperture was about two feet six inches at the upper portion ; it was enlarged down wards, and then swelled out into the chamber ; and that was the invariable way in which the approach to these pits was made. Found in those pits were articles the same as they always rendered. There were a bone of hos longifrons worked into a hook, a bone ring, bone combs, a bone needle ; very few flint tools ; pottery, all hand-made, and the ornamentation of which was of a very peculiar and singular character. But while they found, until a recent date, no evidence of an iron implement, all the flint tools that they found had been flaked by means of iron imple ments ; and there were rust-marks upon them in almost every case. Mr. Stevens went on to speak of trenches which had been found around some of the pits, containing specimens of Boman pottery.