158 CASTLE HILL, CKANBORNE. 



popular assemblies, than for permanent habitation. It is manifest, 

 I think, that these earthworks were not intended to be defensive 

 works of a military kind, though in case of emergency, it is easy to 

 conceive, that by palisading and other means the mounds and 

 ramparts might be made eminently defensive. 



I shall now bring these remarks to a conclusion, having, as I 

 hope, adduced sufficient evidence in proof of the propositions I 

 advanced : 



1. That Cranborne Castle is not an Ancient British work ; 



2. That it is most probably a work of a Saxon age ; 



3. That the traditional name it bears is fully justified by its 



historic associations and the plan of its construction. 



June 29th, 1889, 



