111. WIMBORNE, BADBURY, AND KINGSTON MEETING. 



British trackways, Mr. ALFRED POPE remarked that Roman 

 roads were nearly all consolidated, as if wheels had been driven 

 over them, whereas British trackways were deeply sunk in the 

 soil, did not go straight, and had been used only for pack 

 horses. Captain ELWES observed that there was some ambiguity 

 about the term " Roman roads." When it was used they 

 generally thought of the Roman military roads ; but besides 

 these there were the limit 'es, or Roman lanes, dividing the 

 country into estates of about 240 acre- Traces of these limites 

 were not entirely obliterated ; and it was possible that in a 

 county so unsophisticated as Dorset many farms might still 

 be of the same dimension, and delimited in the same manner, as 

 in Roman times. The Rev. E. HERIZ SMITH mentioned the 

 tradition that Badbury Rings was the Mount Badon where King 

 Arthur beat back the pagan invaders. The PRESIDENT again 

 thanked Mr. Fletcher for his kind assistance. 



A short business meeting was then held, at which four members 

 were elected and six candidates for membership nominated. 



KINGSTON LACY. 



On arriving at Kingston Lacy, the party were welcomed by 

 Mrs. Bankes, and Mr. VV. Albert Bankes, who acted as the Club's 

 cicerone. 



Mr. BA.NKES said that his first duty, and a pleasant one, was, in the name of 

 Mrs. Bankes, to welcome the Dorset Field Club and all their friends to Kingston 

 Lacy. Kingston Lacy, continued Mr. Bankes, takes its name from its ancient 

 owners, the Lacys, Earls of Lincoln, who held it with Shapwick and Blandford. 

 Lying two miles north-west of Wimborne Minster, it has been the seat of the 

 Bankes family since 1660, in which year of the Restoration it was built by Sir 

 Ealph Bankes on the supposed site of a palace the West Saxon kings, and after 

 designs bequeathed by Inigo Jones. The plan of the well-proportioned suite of 

 reception rooms and the principal arrangements of the interior remain now nearly 

 the same as originally ; but the whole of the exterior, formerly of red brick with 

 stone coigns, was between the years 1834 and 18 14 faced over with Caen stone 

 and embellished with decorations and details in the purest Italian style. This was 

 done under the care of the late William John Bankes, M.P. for the University 

 of Cambridge, with the assistance of the late Sir Charles Barry, E.A., then a rising 



