WORGRET HILL AND WAREHAM WATER SUPPLY. 149 

 WORGRET HlLL AND DYKES. 



Worgret Hill (see Plan, Fig. i* and section, Fig. 2) is situated 

 about one mile to the west of the town of Wareham, and is 

 crossed by the high road from that town to Dorchester. To any 

 one coming from Wareham it presents the first sharp rise from 

 the low platform on which Wareham is built,f and the contour 

 map shows us that it consists of an elevated platform with steep 

 sides, sloping to the South and North rivers respectively. This 

 platform, which may be said to commence with the 90 feet and 

 100 feet contours, rises very slightly to the westward, always 

 capping the massif which separates the two valleys, the rivers 

 approaching within three-quarters mile along the line marked 

 A-B on the Plan, but afterwards diverging widely. The plat- 

 form, which is generally covered with a great spread of Plateau - 

 gravel, in its westward rise, reaches 131 feet at the top of 

 Binnegar Lane (i| miles approx.); thence to Hethfelton corner, 

 attains 162 feet (i miles); thence to the Cross Roads on Bere 

 Heath, attains 231 feet (if- miles). Thus in its westward 

 extension the platform, of which Worgret Hill presents the 

 easterly termination, may be said to gain 131 feet in 4-5 miles 

 = i in 1 8 1. 



Throughout this long stretch of level upland there are 

 indications of an extensive dyke, known in some places, and 

 especially on Binnegar Plain, as " Battery Bank." We need not, 

 on the present occasion, follow this dyke in its westward 

 extension, but the complex series of earthworks in connection 

 with it, which are still partially preserved at Worgret, call for 

 some description ; also the many tumuli hereabouts are worthy 

 of notice. 



* The Ordnance Gin. Map is contoured at 50 and 100 feet. The intermediate 

 contours on the Plan were fixed approximately by myself and Mr. Bloomfield 

 during the winter of 1905 -G. 



t The cross roads in the centre of Wareham mark 21*1 feet above O.D. 



