distinct depressions connected by a common entrance, which 

 might possibly have been the mansion of a chief who enjoyed 

 the privilege of occupying a two-roomed habitation. 



Tho camp and entrenchments, according to Hutchins, 

 comprize about forty-seven and a half acres, the area within the 

 ramparts twenty and a quarter acres. There are two entrances, 

 one on the south-east, which is approached from the Down, and 

 is protected by a ^trench or v allum arranged diagonally so as to 

 give it additional strength ; the other on the north-west is 

 defended naturally by the steep hill, and requires little artificial 

 protection. Mr. Barnes gave an interesting and instructive 

 explanation of the general features of the camp ; he attributed 

 its original construction as a place of refuge or fort of the 

 Durotriges, a British tribe which dwelt in that part of Dorset- 

 shire at the time of the Eoman invasion. The conquerors seem 

 to have appropriated it to the same purpose, conforming it to a 

 more advanced style of defence by the additional ramparts and 

 ditches which have no appearance of having belonged to the 

 original plan, and do not resemble the usual peculiarities of 

 British outworks. The philology of Eggardon is a vexed 

 question, it may possibly be ecg. Anglo-Saxon, a corner or 

 elbow, dun, a Down, corresponding exactly with the position of 

 the camp in its relation to the range of hill on which it is con- 

 structed. 



On their return to Bridport the party again enjoyed the 

 hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Coif ox. 



Miss Guilielma Stephens exhibited a rare collection of 

 British Zoophytes, among them Caryophyllia Smithn, which 

 differs from the common Sea Anemone in possessing a calcareous 

 corallum. It has the power of secreting lime, by which a 

 framework of laminated plates is formed, the softer tissues 

 are translucent, the column being very extensile, with ten- 

 tacles set in several rows, diminishing in size from the outer 

 row to the inner, each consisting of a stem with a globular head. 

 Parasmilia centralis, a fossil of the Upper-Chalk, is closely allied 

 to this interesting living Zoophyte. 



The third meeting took place at Corf e Castle. The party was 

 met by our associate, Mr. Thomas Bond, whose family and 

 personal associations rendered him a fit exponent of its history, 

 which he ably set forth, illustrating its architectural features by 

 an exhaustive examination of the fabric and earthworks from 

 their earliest date to the time when the Castle fell a victim to the 

 assaults of Cromwell. 



One of the most important historical events connected with 

 Corf e is the murder of Edward the Martyr, one of the last of 

 our Saxon kings, before the Danish conquest by Sweyne. 

 This son of Edgar by a former Queen was assassinated by, or at 

 the instigation of his step-mother Elfrida, to secure the crown to 



