had succeeded in tracing from Badbury Rings to Ashmore, but on its 

 ultimate destination he was still undecided. A discussion ensued, in 

 which the Secretary described the course of the Roman Road, which 

 followed the ridge of the Mendip Hills, starting at their western extremity 

 at Weston-super-Mare and running eastwards to Old Sarum, whence it 

 was supposed to have branched off towards the Hampshire coast opposite 

 the Isle of Wight. Along the line of this road as it traversed the Mendip 

 Hills there exists numerous camps and earthworks ; the remains of 

 the mining operations of the Romans in search of lead exist in the disused 

 workings and heaps of cinders still visible in the neighbourhood, whilst 

 pigs of metal, coins, and other remains have been discovered from time to 

 time. Whether this road between Badbury and Ashmore had any con- 

 nection with the road along the Mendips was a point which without further 

 investigation could not be decided. The notice of this newly discovered 

 Roman Road was brought forward again at the evening meeting held at 

 Chard in July, when some interesting criticisms were given on the subject 

 by the Rev. Prebendary Scarth, of Wrington, Somerset. The President's 

 paper, with a map of the district, together with Prebendary Scarth's 

 remarks, will be found in the present volume at p. 147. 



Luncheon was provided at the King's Arms Hotel at two p.m. After 

 luncheon a visit was paid to Bockhampton Heath for the purpose of 

 examining some curious funnel-shaped pits which exist in the neighbour- 

 hood in considerable numbers. The largest and most interesting of these, 

 called Culpepper's bowl (which, however, was too distant to be visited on 

 this occasion), is more than 100 yards in diameter. In explanation the 

 President said the sands in which the pits are sunk belong to the Lower 

 Eocene series, and only a short distance intervened between them and the 

 underlying chalk. The surface and atmospheric water charged with 

 carbonic acid percolating through the non-calcareous sands would combine 

 with the carbonate of lime of the chalk, which it would dissolve and 

 remove, and thus produce a vacuum, into which eventually the sands above 

 would subside. A depression of the surface would ensue in proportion 

 to the amount of carbonate of lime removed by the solvent action of the 

 water. 



The Rev. C. R. Baskett, Rector of Stinsford, read a paper, prepared by 

 Mr. H. Moule, of Dorchester, on a stone which had been unearthed on 

 Bockhampton Heath, and which was evidently part of an old cross of Ham 

 Hill stone of 14th or 15th Century date. In the course of the paper the 

 writer noticed two other stones in Stinsford parish one at the top of 

 Stinsford Hill, called Stinsford Cross, the other in the garden of Duddle 

 Cottages at the side of the road as it enters Puddletown Heath between 



