1 66 ARCHITECTURAL STYLES IN EORDlKGTOM CtlURCtt. 



(/!) A Roman tombstone of the first century, with an incised 

 inscription, was found under the south-east angle of 

 the porch, where indicated on the plan. 



(g,} A human skull and horse bones were found built in the 

 base of the irregular- shaped pier ; these constituted a 

 very grave source of .weakness, and may in part have 

 accounted for the pier inclining out of the vertical. 



(^.) On removing the stone foundations under the semi- 

 Norman piers for underpinning, the shape of the 

 trench originally excavated revealed itself. Why I 

 refer to it is because of its most unusual type, and the 

 part taken out under each pillar was identical. The 

 mason who was engaged has done a good bit of church 

 work and underpinning, and had seen nothing like it. 

 The section of the trench was, as it were, a trench 

 within a trench. It was 4 feet wide at the top, 

 gradually tapering down to about 2 feet 6 inches ; and 

 then at the bottom of this upper trench a smaller 

 trench, about a foot wide and a foot deep, cut down 

 in the solid chalk, forming practically a tenon for the 

 masonry. (Sec Sketch No. 10.) 



(/.) The remains of an old foundation for a length of 12 feet 

 were also discovered outside the church, running east- 

 ward in a line with the north wall. 



(/.) The foundations also of the beautiful chancel spoken of 

 by Hutchins, the Dorset historian, were laid bare, as 

 indicated by the lines shewn on the plan. 



In underpinning and putting in foundations for enlarging the 

 buttresses externally to the north aisle, a Perpendicular engaged 

 shaft, cap and jamb, and a first voussoir of the arch in Ham Hill 

 stone of a respond to the old opening of the north transept, 

 done away with in 1833, were dug out from doing duty as 

 foundation stones below the ground. There are others also still 

 there built in the walls. They correspond exactly with the 

 character of those of the present south transept and chanerl. 



