122 Professor T. Riiperi Jones — History of Sarsens. 



(13) Dorset. — 1842. J. Sydenham : " Baal Durotrigensis : 

 A Dissertation on the Antient Colossal Figure at Cerne,. Dorset- 

 shire, etc.," 1842. In a footnote at p. 18, the Sarsens at Little 

 Mayne (referred to at pp. 136 and 161 of ray paper in the Wilts 

 Mag., 1886) are recognized as relics of circles and parts of avenues. 



1871. E. H. W. Dukin, " Megalithic Eemains in South Dorset," 

 in the Eeliq. Quart. Archeeol. Journ. and Review, 1871, 

 pp. 12-15 (separate copy), refers to the stones at Little Mayne. 

 Mr. C. Warne also (1872) notices those old stones in his " Antient 

 Dorset," quoting Sydenham's " Baal Durotrigensis." 



1871. Poxwell, Pogswell, or Pockswell, is a village about 

 5 miles north-east of Weymouth, on the Wareham Road, and at 

 about a quarter of a mile south-east of the church is a small circle 

 of rough Sarsens, brown in colour, with much quartz-crystals in 

 cavities. The stones are much split on the surfaces in squarish 

 irregular segments, with something like gaping fissures. (Dukin, 

 1871, and T. R. J. 1887.) 



Amongst the Sarsens of Dorset, many of them now relics of 

 ancient structures, but originally scattered over the surface of the 

 country, there are evidently many conglomerates. The grooved, 

 or probably holed and broken, stone at Tennant Hill Circle, consists 

 of a "hard puddingstone or conglomerate" (Dukin, 1871, p. 12). 

 The circle at Winterbourne Abbas is described (ibid., pp. 4 and 5), 

 partly after Stukeley ; and it is stated there are " ten stones of 

 a very hard sort, full of flints ; the tallest to west eight feet high, 

 the north seven feet broad, six feet high " (op. cit., p. 5). The 

 usual ridiculous belief in devil handiwork still exists in Dorset 

 and Cornwall (op. cit., p. 9). 



1887. At Fordington Green, Dorchester, at the east end, at the 

 corner of a house bearing the Ordnance Survey Bench-mark, is 

 a Sarsen ; the top is three-faced (4 feet where widest, and 2 ft. 7 ins. 

 high), the sides rounded. This stone some people removed not very 

 long ago, but others had it brought back and replaced. — T. R. J. 



(14) Somerset. — 1888. Many Sarsens in the country around 

 Taunton along the roads and lanes, and in villages at corners, farm- 

 gates, etc. 



In the Castle grounds at Taunton, in the gardens of the 

 Archaeological Society, there is a Sarsen that has been set up as 

 a memorial stone to one of their officers. It is somewhat triangular 

 in outline, 4 ft. 6 ins. high, and 6 ft. 2 ins. at its widest part near the 

 base. Smoothly rounded and irregularly pitted on one face, and flat 

 (apparently split) on the other. It bears a tablet with inscription 

 to the memory of W. A. Jones, who was Secretary to the Society for 

 20 years. It also refers to the donation for buying the grounds for 

 the Society, made by the friends of Mr. W. A. Jones. — W. Bidgood. 



1888. Numerous Sarsens are passed on the road from Taunton 

 for about 10 miles to Staple Fitzpaine, where in a hedge-bank are 

 several such stones, one of which, 5 feet long, and 4 feet high or 

 thick, above ground, with its surface rounded and water-worn, is 

 locally known as the ' Devil's Stone ' ; for, having knowledge of the 



