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unusual thickness of 3ft. 9in., those on the East and West being 2ft. 
6in. wide. They were wholly composed of flint—a coign stone 
(brought from Tisbury), lft. 4in. square, built into the N.E. angle 
and a similar stone, lft. 7in. square, built into the N. wall, and flush 
with its inner face, being the only exceptions. 
In accordance with the plan proposed by me to Sir Francis H. 
Goldsmid, Bart., M.P., the owner of the soil—for the avoiding of 
needless injury to the meadow—I proceeded to examine the internal 
area within the walls, piece by piece, stripping off the turf and 
excavating the ground of a square of perhaps 15ft., and then having 
carefully noted whatever lay beneath, replacing the earth and turf, 
before proceeding further. Thus, by degrees, and after some three 
weeks’ digging—four labourers being employed—the entire space 
was subjected to examination. The work was very laborious. The 
upper soil to the depth of nearly a foot having been removed, there 
lay below 1t a hard mass of rubble and rubbish, the debris of the 
fallen building, faced flints (of which many cart-loads were thrown 
out) and tragments of roofing stones forming the bulk of the material. 
Underneath there was the natural clay floor, here and there sup- 
plemented with a coating of chalk, but unfurnished with any pave- 
ment of any kind, at a depth of some two feet from the surface. 
The whole area was singularly unproductive, insignificant frag- 
ments of pottery, rusty nails, and coins of the third brass, illegible 
from the effects of fire, being all that I obtained from it. There 
was a remarkable absence of tiles; some dozen squares about an inch 
each way, cut from larger tiles, were amongst the rubbish in the 
N.W. corner, and about as many broken pieces of scored tile, picked 
up in other parts, comprised the remainder of those we found. 
In the N.E. and N.W. angles of the enclosure there were small 
chambers, 12ft.. by 9, the party-walls being of the same thickness 
and material as the E. and W. walls of the main building. There 
was a massive coign of Tisbury stone, 2ft. 6in. by lft. 6in., in the 
S.W. corner of the Eastern chamber. No other enclosed spaces 
seem to have existed. Two massive piers on either side, five feet 
square, standing 8ft. apart, and a like distance from the walls, formed 
' of strong flint-work and concrete, were the foundations, I suppose, 
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