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in detail the once noble proportions of the edifice. The guest room has 

 many interesting relics, including a selection of the ancient paving tiles, 

 a number of articles which have been recovered from the ruins, and three 

 tombstones, two of which were of the two wives of the Earl of Cornwall, 

 and one of the sister of Eleanor, the Queen of Henry III. Another 

 stone, that of a former monk, who was afterwards abbot of Nuneham, is 

 supposed to be dated between 1260 and 1300. 



The members were then shown over Lord Montagu's house, some 

 portions of which were parts of the old building, after which, rejoining 

 the breaks, they drove direct to Brockenhurst. Tea was provided at the 

 Morant Arms, and the party left by the 6.12 p.m. train. 



NEW MEMBERS. Three were elected. 



JULY MEETING. The meeting which it had been proposed to hold at 

 Blandford in this month was unavoidably postponed until 1896. 



MELBURY AND EVERSIIOT MEETING. This Meeting was held on 

 Thursday, August 22nd, and, the weather being favourable, proved a 

 very pleasant one. 



The party, numbering about 100, reached Eveishot Station by the 

 train leaving Dorchester at 10.34 a.m., which was stopped there for them 

 to alight, and were met by Mr. S. R. Baskett, who acted as guide during 

 the greater part of the day, and conducted them to Spring Pond, the 

 source of the Yeovil water supply. 



On the way, at the railway bridge, Mr. Baskett pointed out a curious 

 field filled with pits, and said there were a great many theories as to 

 their cause. Some people said the field was the site of a 

 Britisb village, but he did not know how that was made out. Another 

 theory was that the Romans came to this field and burnt chalk there to 

 make lime for the building of Dorchester. This theory Mr. Baskett 

 described as funny, but he pointed out, as a curious fact, that there 

 existed a branch Roman road which led off from the main Roman road 

 running from Dorchester, through Yeovil, to Ilchester, right up to this 

 field and could not be traced beyond it ; anyway, so he was informed by a 

 farmer who occupied for many years the farm in which the field was situ- 

 ated. The farm itself was called Horchester, and was doubtless an old 

 Roman station. Another curious thing was that the field immediately 

 below the one they were considering was called " Flowers Bottom," and 

 they would remember that "Flowers," according to Mr. Warne's theory 

 of " Flowers Barrow," was a corruption of Florus. The farmer told him 

 (Mr, Baskett) that while making excavations of the chalk he found the 



