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peculiarity of the coat of armour, which was of banded chain, or 

 chain mail armour with bands across it at short intervals. Nothing 

 certain is known of the monument, though its date was fixed at the 

 end of the twelfth century. Mr. Swayne conjectured, from the 

 device on the shield, that it might be the tomb of one of the 

 Herberts. The modern east window of the north aisle also called 

 forth considerable interest, as it commemorated the death of Mrs. 

 Arbuthnot, who was killed by lightning in Switzerland on her 

 wedding tour, within a few weeks of her marriage in that Church : 

 nor less touching was the simple wooden cross brought home from 

 the Alps, where the peasants had erected it on the spot where the 

 catastrophe occurred, when it was replaced by another in marble. 



At Tollard Royal General Pitt-Rivers met the excursionists, 

 and from this point that accomplished archaeologist took the party 

 in tow, and acted as their cicerone. First he conducted them through 

 Cranborne Chace to the "Larmer Grounds/'' a pretty pleasure- 

 ground where a stone marked the boundaries of three parishes, and 

 those of two counties ; and where the remains of an old tree showed 

 the spot where King John is said to have held a court, and which 

 was not improbably a dividing line and a meeting-place of the tribes 

 in much earlier times. Then a drive of two miles brought them to 

 the museum at Farnham — a museum which General Pitt- Rivers 

 described as agricultural as well as archaeological, and as intended 

 for the instruction and pleasure of the villagers around, and which 

 he had formed and filled and arranged with that object in view, the 

 collection consisting principally of models and specimens of all kinds 

 of ancient and modern implements, tools, dresses, furniture, pottery, 

 flint knives, &c, from widely-scattered nations and from all times. 

 Every article was clearly labelled, and even little maps accompanied 

 many of the articles, to show the locality whence they derived their 

 origin. From the museum the party drove straight to Rushmore 

 Lodge, alighting for a few moments, when within the grounds of 

 the park, to see some barrows which Gen. Pitt- Rivers had opened, 

 and the exact position of the several interments, which he had most 

 ingeniously shown by means of concrete, with hollows of the shape 

 and size of the several cists, and where the several heaps of burnt 



