<Ihe Assistance ot the im in Jfinbing traces 

 of gestogeb ferthtoovks niib uilimgs. 



By H. J. MOULE, M.A. 



II LMOST every one has heard how, years ago, a hot 

 season drew the ground plan, so to speak, of the 

 long-destroyed cathedral church of Old Saruni. 

 And in that very same neighbourhood, in Salisbury 

 Close, there was a startling case of a similar result 

 in the Jubilee year. It appears that when, in 

 Wyatt's destructive reign, the interior of the 

 cathedral was woefully restored, and, outside, the 

 bell-tower was improved away, another modern improvement was 

 achieved. The Close had been for centuries a burial ground, and 

 was thickly set with headstones. These were carefully buried 

 the memorials forgotten. But the Jubilee sunshine found them 

 out. Over each stone a brown rectangle soon showed itself, and a 

 very strange sight it was to behold the green thus variegated. 



Now it seems not unfitting to lay before the Club the probability 

 that in many places in Dorset the torrid summer of 1896 has done 

 a like work. And further, it is respectfully asked if it may not 

 be worth while to collect and record notes of such marks of 

 forgotten antiquities. We may thus trace, of course, not only 

 wall foundations and buried tombstones, as above said, but also 

 sometimes the lines of levelled earthworks, if made, not of surface- 

 soil, but of sub-soil, such as chalk. 



