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Dorset Jftatural Ijistarp anti Antiquarian 

 Jfidti Club. 



(FROM MAY, 1914, TO MAY, 1915.) 



FIRST SUMMER MEETING. 

 DEWLISH AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD. 

 Tuesday, 30th June. 



The members and their guests assembled at the South- 

 western Railway Station, Dorchester, under the leadership 

 of the President, Mr. Nelson M. Richardson. There was a 

 large attendance on this occasion, about 130 being present. 



The first objective was the recent excavation at the 

 " Elephant Trench " in Dewlish, which was reached after a 

 pleasant motor drive via Puddletown. The party then 

 climbed the hill to the site of the cutting which had been made 

 under the superintendence of Mr. C. S. Prideaux. 



It may be briefly recalled that the remains of elephas 

 meridionalis were originally discovered at this spot in 1813, 

 that subsequently our first president, Mr. J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, explored the fissure, and that he communicated 

 two papers thereon to our Proceedings, viz., in vol x., p. 1, and 

 vol. xiv., p. 139. The present investigation of the site forms 

 a supplement to the researches of our late president, the chief 

 objects of the Earthworks Committee being to determine 

 the nature of the trench or fissure, and to search for any 

 traces of prehistoric man, of whose presence or handiwork 

 no evidence had previously been found. The tusks and 



