26 JOUENAL OF AN EXCURSION TO EASTBUEY AND 
NOTES. 
^ Chittle, spelt Chettle. — A village about six miles N.E, of 
Blandford. 
2 M'^' Chafin. — George Cliafin, Esq., of Chettle, eldest son of 
George Chafin, who died in 1766. The son died in 1776, aged 59. 
^ Another Barrow.— The Barrows which Banks saw this day 
and the day before, are thus described in Hutchins' History of 
Dorsetshire, vol. iii., 2nd edition, 1813, p. 168. 
" There are two Barrows about ^ mile distant from each other, 
one of them 100 yards in length, the other about 60. The latter 
stands jDartly in the parish of Chettle, and partly in that of Tarent 
Gunville : the boundary of the two parishes passes lengthways 
over the suminit of the Barrow, and divides it in equal x^ortions, 
one the j)ropei"ty of the Marquis of Buckingham, the other of Mr. 
Chafin. One end of the Marquis's part was formerly taken into 
Lord Melcombe's park, and was excavated to make a grotto : many 
human bones were dug out, but immediately interred again by his 
lordship's orders. 
" The other BarroAv is situate in a cornfield, near Mr. Chafin's house, 
and he has been credibly informed that about the beginning of the 
last century, an opening was made in the side of this Barrow, and 
that beneath the level of the surface of the field a great quantity 
of human bones were found, and with them heads of spears, and 
relics of other warlike instruments, which were presented to the 
Earl of Pembroke, and are at this time at Wilton House." 
* Banks of Kinston Hall.— This was John Bankes, Esq., 
of Kingston Hall, who died in 1772. 
^ Qrey Plover. — These birds were probably Norfolk Plovers 
which are still summer visitors to Salisbury Plain. — [Ed.] 
^ Entrenchments at Whitnam.— I am informed that this 
passage refers to the well-known Sinodun or Dorchester Clumps, on 
the opposite side of the Thames to Dorchester (C" Oxon.), and above 
the village of Long Wittenham ; visible on the left, just after 
passing Didcot Station, on the way to London. 
' M"^ Stert. — This was Humphry Sturt, Esq., of Crichel. Henry 
Gerard Sturt, created a Baron in 1876 with the title of Lord 
Alington, is now the head of the family. Seat at Crichel. 
^ Lake at Horton. — At page 59 of Hutchins' History of Dorset' 
shire, 1st edition, 1774, vol. ii., is the following account of this 
lake : — 
" Mr. Sturt has lately made near his seat one of the finest pieces 
