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The Gaer, a Roman Station.––Brunless Castle.––The Hay.––Funeral Song, 'Mary's Grave'.––Clifford Castle.––Return by Hereford, Malvern Hills, Cheltenham, and Gloucester, to Uley.––Conclusion.
In
addition to the above, it may be acceptable to state, that Mr. Price, a very intelligent
farmer on the spot, has in his possession several of the above kind of bricks, bearing the
same inscription, done, evidently, by stamping the clay, while moist, with an instrument.
These have been turned up by the plough, together with several small Roman lamps
[Bloomfield's note: derived from William Coxe,
On a grave in the churchyard at Hay, or The Hay, as
it is commonly spoken, flowers had evidently been planted, but only one solitary sprig of
sweet-briar had taken root. [Bloomfield's note, referring to the last eight lines of 'I Yru
yr Haf i Anerch Morganwg' ['To Send the Summer to Greet Glamorgan'], published as the work
of Dafydd ap Gwilym in
THE END.