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made to the number in the course of a somewhat tedious journey, 

 and on arrival at Dorchester the party was met by the Mayor (Mr. 

 Alfred Pope), himself an archaeologist, who with great kindness 

 had at very short notice placed himself at the service of the 

 visitors. Ho immediately conducted them to Mambury Ring, a 

 very fine earthwork in the form of an amphitheatre, which latter 

 name has been given to it of late years. Hsre at the request of 

 the Assistant Secretary of the Club his Worship read some notes 

 which he had prepared respecting it. He said that though close 

 to Dorchester they were standing in the parish of Fordington S. 

 George as Dorchester did not extend beyond its own walls, which 

 enclosed about 80 acres. That work seemed to have been the place 

 of amusement for the Roman inhabitants of Durnovaria and 

 according to custom was placed outside the walls. It was probably 

 a work of the time of Agricola, who encouraged the Britons in 

 such works in order, to soften their natures by luxury. For the 

 discovery of this work as a monument of antiquity they were in- 

 debted to Sir Christopher Wren who noticed it during his frequent 

 journeys to the Island of Portland while S. Paul's Cathedral was 

 in building. Before this discovery it was called, and is still called 

 by the common people, Mambury or Mambury Eing. Hutchins 

 explains the first syllible as from Malm, or "mame," a kind of 

 earthy chalk. Mr. Warne in his " Antient Dorset" traces it to 

 " maen," a great stone, and preserves a tradition of a huge stone 

 which stood in the entrance, and was buried because it was in the 

 way of cultivating the soil and was too big to be removed. The 

 work was set in a plain declining to the north-east, of solid chalk, 

 on a level Avith the ground with no fosse round it. Up till 1 767 

 all public executions took place there and part of the terrace had 

 been injured by the trampling of men and horses. It was said 

 that when Mary Channings was executed there in I70f), 10,000 

 people assembled. The following dimensions were taken from 

 Hutchins : Greatest perpendicular height of the rampart above the 

 area 30ft., external longest diameter 343ft. 6in., external shortest 

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