Jllotes on some 

 of CfoJiep (Entrenchments in ttje 



District, Central 

 Dorset* 



By HERBERT S. TOMS 



(Curator of the Brighton Museum and formerly Assistant to the 

 late General Pitt-Rivers). 



TOURING the summer of 1907 your Club made an 

 excursion to some valley entrenchments in the 

 neighbourhood of Piddletrenthide. For some 

 time previously I had taken an interest in 

 similar works on the Sussex Downs, and the 

 notice of your excursion which appeared in 

 The Antiquary led to immediate correspond- 

 ence with the Rev. C. W. H. Dicker. I also 

 paid a flying visit to the Piddletrenthide 

 earthworks that year. This visit proved of the greatest 

 value during subsequent study of the valley entrenchments 

 of Sussex. In fact so materially did Mr. Dicker's sketches 

 and notes assist the endeavour to form a provisional scheme 

 of classification, that it was felt imperative to obtain, for 

 comparative purposes, larger and more detailed plans of the 



