in Dorset. 



By the Rev. H. SHAEN SOLLY, M.A. 



(Read 8th Dec., 1914.) 



HE object of the present paper is not to discuss 

 any of the archaeological problems which 

 at present interest experts, or to advance 

 the boundary of their knowledge. For 

 such a task I am wholly incompetent. 

 But I find there are many people who 

 would like to know more of a great body 

 of definitely ascertained truth, who are 

 much interested in excursions to visit the 

 pre-historic remains with which Dorset is so richly endowed, 

 and who certainly might be interested in the collections 

 assembled at our Museums. 



In dealing with prehistoric times we need a chronological 

 scale which will replace the chronology of history. Such a 

 scale is furnished by geology and gives us a basis of 

 unquestionable fact from which to start. The earliest rocks 

 known to geology are the Primary or Paleozoic, and 

 throughout the incalculable periods of time which these 



