or pumsef 



By E. CUNNINGTON, Esq. 



(Read June Sth, 1900.) 



in HIS is sometimes called Dunset, a provincialism 

 meaning a small hill, but as the dimensions 

 furnished in our programme of this day says 

 it is 500 yards long and 200 yards broad, I 

 think it must emerge from the small-hill set. 

 It probably has its name of Dungeon from a 

 small tower left in the camp, and the plentiful 

 supply of tiles, stones, and building materials 

 left, justify the idea. 



Dungeon is about a mile north of Buckland Newton, and 

 13 or 14 miles due north of Maiden Castle. On the visit of the 

 Dorset Field Club to this camp in July, 1878, two pieces of a 

 Roman quern were found in one of the valla. In making small 

 researches in 1881 in the vallum, three pieces of Roman pottery 

 were discovered ; one, the base of a small well-made drinking 

 cup with fluted sides of the Fordingbridge pottery ; the others 

 of black and fine red ware. There are plenty of Roman remains 

 inside the camp, consisting of flanged and other tiles of different 

 makes 



