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the Club that the tufaceous deposits at Blashenwell, i| miles S. 

 by W. of Corfe Castle, had been twice described in the Proceed- 

 ings, in Vol. VII. by the late Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, who said he 

 considered the beds to belong to the period of human occupation, 

 as they contained fractured bones, fragments of burnt wood, and 

 flint flakes; and in Vol. XVIII. by Mr. Clement Reid, who 

 described his work and discoveries in the year 1884, undertaken 

 for the Geological Survey. He considered the place a Neolithic 

 kitchen midden, and stated that in addition to broken pottery, 

 bones, and flint flakes, he found, cut 4ft. down in the tufa, a 

 grave lined with slabs of stone, containing a skeleton of a youth 

 in a contracted position. On January 28th last, continued 

 Captain Acland, the Rev. S. C. Spencer-Smith informed him 

 that a labourer had just found a skull in the bank, and that 

 there were more bones still undisturbed further in. Flat stones 

 at the sides formed the grave. At his suggestion Mr. Le Jeune, 

 of Upper Parkstone, kindly examined the spot on January 3 1 st, 

 and, with friends, obtained the photographs, which he now 

 showed. He considered this a different burial from the one 

 noticed by Mr. Reid in 1894, as it was in the soil above the tufa. 

 He thought also that there were other graves in the bank. Mr. 

 Le Jeune drew attention to a curious piece of wall, roughly 

 built of large unshaped stones in a sort of herring-bone without 

 mortar. Much of it had fallen down since he last visited the 

 spot, but some still remained and was shown in the photograph. 

 There are a large number of objects from Blashenwell in the 

 County Museum. Captain Acland added that he received 

 information of another burial, near Worbarrow, enclosed in large 

 slabs of Kimmeridge shale. In each case he was asked if he 

 would house the remains in the County Museum ; but he took 

 upon himself the responsibility of answering that he thought it 

 far better that these remains of their ancestors of remote ages 

 should be either left where they were or placed in a churchyard. 



IMPORTANT DISCOVERY AT FORDINGTON. A ROMAN INCISED 

 STONE. The Rev. R. GROSVENOR BARTELOT, Vicar of 

 Fordington St. George Church, produced photographs of what 



