Ixvi. WEST PURBECK MEETING. 



existence to put glass into certain windows to keep out the wind 

 proves. In wet and rough weather these open windows were 

 closed by shutters, and the hooks at the sides of this window 

 have the appearance of having been put there to hang the 

 shutters on. If so, the shutters were divided, so that one half, 

 the upper or lower, could be left open and the other closed if 

 necessary. In the central mullion the holes for the bolts which 

 secured the shutters when closed are still perfect ; in most old 

 windows of the date the bolt holes are broken away. And the 

 stone seat in the window is also perfect, though it is partially 

 concealed by a board put across for a cill. Seats of this 

 peculiar form are a marked feature of i3th century windows. 



The club are indebted to the Rev. W. D. Filliter for the 

 admirable plans of Barnestone and the drawing of the roof of 

 Tyneham old hall, as well as for the sketch of this window. 



TYNEHAM, GADCLIFF. 



The party, resuming their places in the brakes, drove on to 

 Tyneham, where they were courteously received by Mr. and 

 Mrs. W. H. Bond. Mr. Bond at once led them through the 

 woods which shelter the house to Gadcliff, where Mr. Hudle- 

 ston again addressed the members of the Club. With regard to 

 the geology of the locality, he said time would not allow of their 

 going to Worbarrow, which was a much better place for 

 studying the formations than the place where they were, 

 although Gadcliff lacked nothing of the picturesque. Indeed, 

 that celebrated traveller and naturalist, Mr. Alfred Russell 

 Wallace, whose son had been with them for a while that day, 

 once told him that he considered Gadcliff the finest feature in 

 the Isle of Purbeck. And he believed that most artists would 

 endorse that opinion. This particular district of Gadcliff 

 especially, Mr. Hudleston continued, always reminded him of 

 the more calcareous portions of the Alps. One might imagine 

 that it was a kind of Dent de Morcles in miniature. Hard 

 limestones were superimposed on soft sands and clays, in this 

 case on the Kimmeridge clay, and such a conjunction produced 

 the feature which was so excesssively striking. He should have 



