AJOD CmmCH OF JSTTDLAIO). 249 



another called Puketon. Adlingstone is the most northerly of 

 all, and seems to be the same now called Agglestone, or Stone' 

 Barrow^ from a vast stone on it." (See page 79.) 



Towards the Eastern extremity of Studland Heath, and 

 near the shore of one of the small bays of Poole Harbour are 

 a quantity of ** Hut Circles," commonly called "Fairy Eings.'* 

 Similar works occur in several places in Dorsetshire, as at Fern 

 Do\\Ti, iu the parish of Hampreston ; upon Eed Hill, beneath 

 which the River Stour enters Hampshire, in which coimty 

 also the South-Western Eailway cuts through a great nimiber 

 of them at about two miles "West from Eingwood. In Vol. xvi. 

 p. 167 of the Archaeological Journal, some fifteen of those 

 circles are mentioned aa occumng upon Walton Down between 

 Bristol and Clevedon, in which were found broken pottery 

 with burnt earth and bones. These upon Studland Heath aro 

 about 30-ffc. in diameter. Associated with them ai'e a number 

 of short low mounds, boai-ing the appoai*ance of graves, but 

 each evidently thrown up from a hollow on the West side, so 

 that the mound sheltered from the East. I have met with 

 mounds of a precisely similar character upon Pizzle-down, be- 

 tween Verwood and Fordingbridge. At both places I have 

 dug into several, but without finding any remains. They 

 were probably fire-places. 



From the situation above alluded to, I conceive that these 

 circles are reliques of a tribe of the Early Britons, who resorted 

 to and erected their huts upon this shore of the Bay during 

 the Summer for the purpose of fishing. It is worthy of re- 

 mark that here a small "lake" rims up through the mud, 

 which at low tide, is sufficient to float a boat. Fishermen or 

 Smugglers of our own age have added an ai-tificial landing- 

 place. From it runs a well defined ancient trackway, in a 

 southerly direction, to a crossing through a peat-bog, appa- 

 rently towards the Agglestone. 



The small and very picturesque village which is situated at 

 the North- West angle of the Bay, (with the exception of ita 



