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THE DRUID'S TEMPLE, OR DRUIDIGAL CIRCLE. 



By the Rev. O. P. CAMBRIDGE, M.A., &c, &c. 



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SSESSING little or no antiquarian knowledge, I 

 feel that some apology is due from me to the 

 members of our Club for bringing before them 

 the subject of these ancient remains at Poxwell, 

 I trust, however, that my presumption will be 

 excused when I explain that my object is simply to ask you to 

 accept, for insertion in some future volume of our Proceedings, 

 a very accurate sketch made of them last summer by my nephew. 

 Frederick 0. P. Cambridge, on a visit made to the spot in com- 

 pany with myself. To this sketch I have also added a few 

 notes as to the present state of the ' Druids Temple " or 

 " Circle," and a reference to what has already been published 

 upon it. I am not aware that any pictorial sketch has ever 

 been published on these remains, though there is an accurate 

 ground plan in " Some Account of the Megalithic remains in 

 South Dorset." by Mr. E. H. W. Dunkin (Eeliquary Quarterly 

 Archaeological Journal and Review, January 1871) where they 

 are described and their probable origin also fully discussed. 

 The spot on which the " Druids Temple " is seated is a very 

 picturesque one commanding a fine view of part of Portland, 

 Weymouth Bay, West Bay, and the Chesil Bank; and it 



