inner enclosure with the main fosse, including the counter- 

 scarp, has been railed oflf for preservation. This is greatly 

 to be regretted, as, with the destruction of the outer works, 

 the interest of this perhaps unique example will be lost. 



Carnarvonshire. — Pknmaenmawr. — Mr. Willoughby 

 Gardner reports that the destruction of this magnificent 

 fortress, by quarrying under a lease from the Crown, is still 

 slowly in progress, and that much indignant local agitation 

 and protest has been manifested, following on Mr. Gardner's 

 bringing the matter before the Earthworks Committee, the 

 Cambrian Archaeological Association, the Royal Commission 

 on the Ancient Monuments of Wales, the National Trust, the 

 Woods and Forests Commissioners, and Parliament, without 

 avail. 



Dorset. — The Rev. C. W, Whistler writes that, with the 

 exception of the levelling of an already opened tumulus, for 

 agricultural purposes, in a field to the south of the main 

 Dorchester road, about two miles from Blandford, there is no 

 destruction to report in the county. 



G1.0UCESTERSHIRE. — U1.EY Bury. — It has been brought to 

 the notice of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological 

 Society that quarrying is still being carried on at Uley Bury, 

 which endangers the earthworks of the camp. 



WESTMORI.AND. — Stainton.— Mr. W.G. Collingwood,F.S. A., 

 reports that a small "British Settlement" at Stone Close, 

 Stainton-in-Furness, finally obliterated by quarrying, has been 

 under observation by the Cumberland and Westmorland 

 Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, and a report will 

 appear. 



WiivTSHiRE.— AvEBURY. — The Wiltshire Archaeological and 

 Natural History Society reports that digging for chalk has 

 somewhat injured the slight ditch round the top of Windmill 

 Hill, Avebury. 



