Riding upon Lansdown, I saw the monument, lately erected by lord Lansdown, in memory of his grandfather Bevil Granvile, slain here in a battle with the parliament forces. Hence, it being a north-west precipice, is a prospect of Bristol, the Severn, &c. This road seems to be the Ricning-street, called Langridge, going to the passage over the Severn, the ancient _Trajectus_ and so along the east side of the Severn, and into Yorkshire. The ground hereabouts is very red, covering a solid rock of stone, which lies in thin layers parallel to the horizon, with as much exactness as if hewn for courses in a wall: this stone is full of little shells; and of this sort is the monument of Julius Vitalis: between the _strata_ are crystallizations or fluors of petrifying juices: all the stone in this country abounds with curious fossils. As you walk along a new paved road, it is very common to find very great _cornua ammonis_, two foot diameter, laid in among the rest; and, though formed with such admirable curiosity, yet the country people walk carelessly over them, as I observed, whilst a horse will startle at so unusual an appearance: the first I saw in the Foss road, going up the hill south of Bath, I took for the image of the Sun, which I remembered to have seen prints of, as it was in _basso relievo_ in the city-walls, with his hair flowing round like rays; and this was well enough represented in a stone that had been worn a little: but I was soon undeceived, when I found great numbers of the same sort further on.[132] [Illustration: 49 +Roman Inscriptions+ _Honorabili Johĩ Clerke Baroni Scaccar. in Scotia tab. d.d. Wˢ. Stukeley._ _Stukeley f.a.f 1723_] [Illustration: 41·2ᵈ. _At Bathe._ _Stukeley delin._ _I. Harris fecit._] [Sidenote: _The_ +Weddings+. Br. _Temple_.] [Sidenote: +Marsbury+ _field_.] [Sidenote: +Bowditch+ _camp_.]