& Comparison of Dr. 

 Account of tije Boman ^nrpijitijcatre at 



Dordjester 

 toitti tijc Bcsuit of tt;c (Excavations, 



1908*1910* 



By Captain JOHN E. ACLAND. 



writings of Dr. Stukeley are well known 

 to students of Archaeology, but as they 

 are not perhaps readily accessible to all 

 members of the Dorset Field Club it may 

 be of interest if I refer briefly to his 

 treatise on our most valuable antiquarian 

 possession, the Roman Amphitheatre, of 

 which we have heard a good deal locally 

 during the last two or three years. 



Dr. Stukeley, who was born in Lincolnshire in the year 

 1687, was (even as a child) of a most enquiring disposition, 

 with a mind bent on research. It is reported of him that 

 when an undergraduate at Cambridge " he frequently 

 went a simpling, and began to steal dogs and dissect them ; 



