VOL. xvin. (3) EXCURSION-WEYMOUTH, PORTLAND, &c. 221 

 (a part of Chesilton)-a very fine fossil tree from the Lower Purbeck of the 



Rain camion as the Members were passing through Chesilton and con- 

 tinued to fall heavily all the evening. 



WOOL, WAREHAM, CORFE, AND LULWORTH. 



The next morning it had cleared up. and the Members left the hotel at 

 9.30 a^ Between tie coast and P-ston, Roman remams have been dis^ 

 covered— in particular a Roman pavement found m 1852. ^°/he_ nortn 01 



prefer to believe that it represents George ill. ! 



A very pleasant run amid undulating country brought the Members to 



humokalised in Thomas Hardy's tragic novel^ Tess_ An mvitation 

 over the house was readily accepted (Plate XXIV., fig. i). 



The iourney of five miles between Wool and Warehani ^as ^oo^ ^':: 

 complished At^he western entrance to Wareham (the Anglebury of Hardy s 

 novelsT the Members got out and walked along the earthwork to the north- 

 weltern corner Herf the Honorary Secretary gave a bnef account of the 

 geology of the district. 



Next the history of Wareham was dealt with. It is a place of consider- 

 able antiautv It is situated on a tongue of relatively elevated ground 



Poole Harbour, which is situated a little over half a mile to the east. 



The fact that the site was a good one to fortify was early appreciated 

 the natural slopes were suitably steepened, earthworks constructed and an 

 area of about Too acres then enclosed. The chief entrances were two gate- 

 wkvs-one near St Martin's Church in the district still called Northport 

 rnfthe other (by which the Members entered) on the west, which is still 

 known as " Westport." 



When the Romans came, P»fably in Vespasial's time, the »>»P«'J 

 already existing were completed and e'^'«»<'«* <P1»'« ^^f.^ti'VJ.treetl 

 S^SkrafS^ra-SffS'thTtrnriie^oTrman'c^^^^^^^ 



«?^S>^feoI-^^es'wlriiUrra%i:le^^^ 



Srs'£f.eT.';*rd'^d»tr'SeS^^^^^^ 



l„d a nunS The castle-which »as situated near the bridge over the 

 |-°le-w"rei,«ift by William I. and destroyed by Stephen »■ "4.;^™' 



oTSJel-SlKNtt^fSrSioVo^eifSp^kte-nil^^^^^^^^^^^ 



, Sec also John Bellows, " Roman Warehan, and the Claudian Invasion." Proc. Porset Nat 

 Hist, and Antiqu. F.C.. vol. xiii. (1892), pp. 115-130. 



