By Rev. W. MILES BARNES. 



(Read Sept. 10th, 1900.) 



HAVE been invited to be your guide at Poxwell, and 

 to give you some account of the megalithic 

 remains which are before you, and all too 

 lightly I consented to do so, but have since 

 had time to repent of having undertaken to 

 be the instructor of others on a subject about 

 which nothing definite is known. 



On the last visit of the Field Club to this 

 spot your late Treasurer, Mr. Cambridge, was 

 your guide, and some notes of his from which 

 I shall quote, together with a sketch of the circle and the 

 surrounding country, will be found in Vol. X. of the transactions 

 of the Club. A plan will be found in the Reliquary Quarterly 

 Archaeological Journal and Review for Jan., 1871, with a 

 description, in which " the remains are described and their 

 probable origin fully discussed." 



Hutchins' account, written in 1774, is as follows : " A quarter 

 of a mile S.E. of Poxwell House, near to the great road to 

 Weymouth, are 15 stones ranged in a circular form; one or two 

 seem missing on the N.W., where, perhaps, was the entrance. 



