of Cranborne 



By HEYWOOD SUMNER, F.S.A. 



HE plans which I am submitting for your 

 inspection to-day are an attempt to put 

 into practise the preaching of the Archseo- 

 logical Committee on Ancient Earthworks. 

 This committee has urged that plans 

 and schedules should be made of our 

 Ancient Earthworks throughout England ; 

 that a definite area should be undertaken 

 by each worker ; and that the plans should 

 be made on the 25 inch scale. My daily 

 view extends over Cranborne Chase, and curiosity had often 

 led me to investigate its varied earthworks. In so doing 

 I had felt the w r ant of a complete record of their plans. 

 Thus it came to pass that two years ago I ventured to 

 undertake a definite survey of the Ancient Earthworks on 

 Cranborne Chase, the results of which you see before you. 

 It is curious that the old cartographers, Saxton, Norden, 

 and Speed, did not mark camps and earthworks in their 

 surveys. Speed records a few in his letterpress descriptions 



