Sanbsfoot Caetle, HQe^moutb. 



By W. C. NORMAN. 



(Read December 9th, 1919.) 



HAVE recently read with considerable interest 

 T. B. Groves's "Note on Sandsfoot Castle," which 

 appeared in Vol. III. (pages 20, &c.) of the 

 Proceedings of our Club. This to a great extent is 

 accounted for by the fact that my school days were spent at 

 Weymouth, and naturally I was well acquainted with this ruin. 



For this reason, and because of what is related further on, 

 I thought I might, without presumption, add a few remarks 

 on the subject. 



My earliest recollection of the Castle reaches back to a 

 period of over 60 years, and is, that it was then on the edge of 

 the cliff. Indeed, most of the gun-room was gone, and its 

 south-eastern and south-western walls projected over it 

 considerably, as a result of being undermined by the disinte- 

 grating- action of the sea. 



At this time there was no way round the Castle and the sea 

 cliff outside it, except the dangerous one of climbing round the 

 overhanging ruins, which afforded a very precarious foothold, 

 and from which to the rocks below was a sheer drop of 40 feet. 



There was a large fall of masonry from the south-front in 

 1835, and there have been others at various times since. 



