Description: Festivities on Claverton Down including, the illumination of Sham Castle, fete and rural sports: donkey race, sack race, apple bobbing, mens' cock fight, pudding eating, diving for bullets in flour, eating penny loaf dipped in treacle suspended by a wire, boys' cock fight, reverse donkey race (last place wins), jingling matches, pig hunt.
Newspaper cutting from the Bath Chronicle, 7th July 1814.