136 History of the Sarsens. 
In the “ Geologist,” vol. v., for 1862, p. 449, Mr. Bensted states : 
“The Druid Sandstone, of which rock Kits Coty House, Stonehenge, 
and other remains are composed, is found scattered in great blocks 
over the surface of the Chalk hills (near Maidstone), or buried 
superficially in the beds of clay retained in the hollows on the sum- 
mits of the escarpments.” Mr. Bensted also met with fragments 
of the flint conglomerate on the Maidstone Hills (p. 450). 
. The following is an interesting record, by the Rev. Osmond 
Fisher, F.G.S., of the conditions under which some Sarsens occur 
in Dorsetshire :—“ Close to the village of Broadmayne, about five 
miles (south-east) from Dorchester, on the Wareham road, are several 
blocks of Druid Sandstone, in two fields on each side of the road, 
close to a farm-house, marked ‘ Little Mayne’ on the map. These 
blocks have been a puzzle to the local archzologists, who have en- 
deavoured to give them an antiquarian value, and to explain their 
arrangement as belonging to some ancient so-called ‘ Druidical’ 
work. They are, however, a natural deposit, and, as I conceive, are, 
so to speak, im siti; that is to say, they have not travelled any 
distance from the place where they were formed. The locality is 
on the line of junction with the Chalk of a small outlier of the 
Lower Tertiaries. These beds are extremely variable in character ; 
and at this spot a fine, sharp, white sand crops out on the north 
side of the shallow valley in which the blocks lie. In the side of 
the road this sand has been cut into; and two of the blocks of 
sandstone are seen, one partly cropping out on the surface, with its 
lower portion embedded in its native sand; the other is entirely 
enveloped in the sand, except as far as it has been exposed in cutting 
the road. The blocks are evidently indurated masses of this bed of 
sand. The denuding forces which have scooped out the valley have 
removed the sand and left the blocks behind. There are numerous 
other blocks of a similar character on and beneath the lofty hill 
called Blackdown, near Portisham (about seven miles S. W. of 
Dorchester). These, however, are conglomerates of large flints. 
Some lie on the top of the hill on the upper surface of the Chalk, 
almost iz sité@, as at Mayne, and close to the Tertiary beds from 
which they came; others have been carried by some torrential 
