²⁰ I am grateful to Mr. P. J. Casey, director of the recent excavations at Lydney Park, who told me about these stones and invited my comments, and to the Viscount Bledisloe for his permission to examine and publish them.

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²⁸ Blagg, op. cit. (note 24), pp. 153–7 and fig. 84.

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⁴¹ Wheeler and Wheeler, op. cit. (note 21), p. 67 and pl. XXIIIa.

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⁴³ Bathurst and King, op. cit. (note 21), p. 3. It may be inferred from the absence of mention in this report that they were not found in the Rt. Hon. Charles Bathurst's carefully recorded excavations in 1805.

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