MR. HENLEY GEORGE GREAVES zyj 



Kineston Lisle House that the orifice has 

 long been closed by a board fastened by a 

 padlock and chain. The following village 

 lines on the stone are quoted in the " Scouring 

 of the White Horse," by the late Mr. Thomas 

 Hughes : — 

 "The Bleawin-Stwun in days gone by 



Wur King Alfred's bugle-harn 



And the Tharning Tree you med plainly see 



Um is called the King's Tharn." 



These " Sarsden " stones are common about 

 the Berkshire and Wiltshire downs, and are 

 of a nature quite different to any other stone 

 found in the neighbourhood. Geologists say 

 that they are the remains of a formation which 

 once overlaid the chalk, but has since been 

 swept away, leaving only these scattered stones 

 to tell its history. Stonehenge is built with 

 Sarsden stones. 



The annual dinner of the O. B.H. took 

 place in the Council Chamber at Abingdon, 

 on Friday, April the ist, 1864. There were 

 present : C. P. Dufifield, Esq., in the Chair, 

 and Messrs. Henley Greaves, J. Blandy 

 Jenkins, J. B. Barrett, B. Challener, the Mayor 

 of Abingdon, J. Aldworth, P. Hammett, G. 

 F. Crowdy, E. K. Lenthall Lowndes, G. B. 

 Eyston Stone, T. Duffield, J. Morland, Tread- 

 well, Moore, Philip Wynter, H. Stone, Wood- 



