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Summer Session 191 i — Excursion Season. 



This general excursion to the Tarrant Valley was 

 17 May, 191 1. chiefly of Archaeological interest as — Buzbury and 

 Spettisbury — date from prehistoric times, while Tarrant Rushton and 

 Tarrant Crawford Churches and Tarrant Abbey Barn were relics 

 from the middle ages. The nicely arranged museum of natural 

 history, the property of the venerable Rector of Tarrant Rushton, was 

 particularly appreciated. 



This was nominally the first Sectional excursion of 

 27 May, 191 1 the Soc i et y f or trie season. It was to St. 



Catherine's (or Katterns) Hill north of Christchurch, and the sites of 

 the ancient Belgic hill town, the exploratory Roman camp and 

 mediaeval chapelry of St. Catherine were in turn visited and 

 described. 



The first part of this general excursion to Beaulieu 



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4 » y • anQ Cuffhels, Lyndhurst, was of Archaeological 

 interest, inasmuch as it consisted of a visit to the ruins of the 

 Cistercian Abbey of Beaulieu, founded by King John in the early 

 part of the 13th Century. 



28 June 1 1 1 ^ w0 Sections — the Archaeological and Photo- 

 2 une, 191 1. graphs — combined together in a visit to Netley 

 Abbey, an offshoot from Beaulieu at a slightly later date in the 13th 

 Century. 



. . This general excursion to Old Sarum and Salisbury 



19 uy, 1911. was essentially antiquarian in character. The 

 great advantage in this excursion was that the excavators of the 

 Society of Antiquaries in charge of Old Sarum most courteously 

 exhibited and described the excavations of the Sarum fortress. 



26 Jul in ^ comDnie d Botanical and Archaeological excursion 

 2 "y» I9 11 - was made to Corfe Castle, Rempston Stone Circle 

 and Studland. 



A The general excursion to Portland included the 



9 ug., 191 1. i nS p e ction of many of the antiquarian and 

 prehistoric remains of that district. 



A * The Archaeological excursion of this date to 

 ug. , 1 9 1 1 . jyj 0 yi es c our t was, by the kind permission of Haigh 

 Thomas, Esq., permitted to enter the rooms made historic by the 

 tragedy of Lady Alice Lisle. The ancient church at Ellingham and 

 the site of its Alien Benedictine Priory and the 15th Century brass 

 of Dr. John Prophete, the last Rector of Ringwood, now lying in 

 Ringwood Church, were also visited in this excursion. 



