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farmers. But we want no other evidence than that afforded by 

 the condition of the high chalk land in the present day. We find 

 squares formed by lynchets (called by Mr. Stackhouse terraces) 

 the marks of ancient agriculture, all over the sides of our hills. 



It is now a common practice to dig in these 13'nchets for flints ; 

 and when engaged in this work, the labourers have frequently 

 found Roman coins, fibulse, pottery, &c. I have many articles of 

 this kind, and I think the evidence is full proof that this ancient 

 agriculture was the work of the Romanized Britons." 



It may be well to remark, that there are many terraces on the 

 sides of hills bounding the river courses, which, though resembling 

 lynchets, are in reality the terraces left by the higher level of the 

 rivers in remote ages — in fact, old river banks. Examples may be 

 seen in many parts of the course of the Avon. They also 

 exist at Castle Combe, at a height of about twenty or thirty feet 

 above the present stream. A good example of this kind of terrace, 

 extending for more than a mile, may be seen on the right hand 

 side of the railroad, between Maiden-Newton and Dorchester. 



Wm. Cunnington. 



Pbtotg of tlje |itris| of ^todttoir, Milts. 



By tlie Rev. Thomas Miles, M.A. 

 ( Continued from page 121.^ 



pflp^HE exterior of the Church presents few interesting features. 

 ii^fe The north side is particularly plain and void of ornament. 

 The porch, which is on this side, is Early English. The stones 

 used to raise the walls of the porch, are fragments of Early English 

 windows, supposed to have been taken out of the north wall when 

 the recess was made for Mr. Topp's monument. The tower is of 

 three stages, and has a perpendicular battlement, with gurgoiles at 

 the angles, two of them mutilated. There is a double lancet 

 window in the upper stage of the west side, and a square-headed 



