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and read an account of the find. The barrow Avas 114 feet in diameter. 

 There was a dolmen 3 feet under the original surface covered over with 

 a cairn of very large rough stones, the top one weighing no less than a 

 ton. 



The party then entered Portisham Church, where Eev. \Y. ]M. Barnes 

 pointed out the chief features of interest, stating that the church was 

 originally a transition Norman structure. Of this building the north wall 

 remained, Avith the original arches built up. One of them was pierced 

 with a 15th century window. The outer arch of the porch was of the 

 same date, and the font showed 13th century influence. Of 13th century 

 work the priest's doorway was a good example, and the tower ai-ch was 

 of the same date. The window to the west of the priest's doorway with 

 plate tracery might be late 13th or very early lith century work. A 

 window on the north side of the nave was markworthy. It showed that 

 the movement which resulted on the Continent in the adoption of the 

 style known as Flamboyant was not Avithout its influence here, though here 

 the transition from the 14th century Gothic resulted in the Perpendicular 

 style. The Norman aisle Avas divided from the nave by the before- 

 mentioned arches, and Avas in all probability taken doAvn late in the i4th 

 century, Avhen that Avindow was put in. In the loth century the greater 

 part of the church Avas rebuilt, the nave, the south aisle, the arches, the 

 roofs, and other details being of this date. The rood-screen, Avith a loft 

 over it, Avas also erected in the 15th century, but the loft Avas removed in 

 the following century. The arrangement of hagioscopes on the north side 

 Avas peculiar. It afforded evidence that there Avas an altar beneath the 

 screen as Avell as an altar at the east end of the north aisle. The pulpit 

 Avas Jacobean or Caroline. The parish register goes back to 1567. 



On leaving the church the party drove to the Ilchester Arms, Abbots- 

 bury, Avhere luncheon Avas provided, after Avhich an adjournment Avas 

 made to the gardens belonging to Lord Ilchester, Avhich he had kindly 

 allowed the Club to visit. Here the President read a paper " On some 

 of the Rarer Trees in the Gardens of Abbotsbury Castle," illustrating 

 it by some of the trees and shrubs groAving in the gardens, Avhich 

 contain a great variety of interesting forms from many parts of 

 the globe. He shoAved hoAv these lecent forms Avere allied to those of 

 Avhich the remains Avere found fossil in the rocks and traced out tiieir 

 geological history, also dAvelling upon their geographical distribution at 

 different periods. His paper Avill be found later in the present volume. Lord 

 E. Cecil, having expressed the thanks of the Club to the President, and 

 acknowledgment havintr been made of Lord Ilchester's kindness, the party 

 divided, the greater part ascending the hill to St. Catherine's Chapel. Here 



