The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-09-10 00:00:00

A TRIP TO LITLWORTEC

On a glorious morning in Augu,t. walking towards I
the Pier, we saw a group of people listening to the voice
of the town crier, 1600,.nneinif that—" The steamer will
make an excursion to Lul North this morning at 11.30 "
This was manly wiener mid than done. The sound of
the nthenhei voice of "Let go aft," and " Let go aft it in,
sir." greets our ears, and away en need, even before we
hare time to see wio it is thst " wants • new beat,. and I
give and mein oar kind wishes and congratulations to
nth. of our fraois and acquaintances. We an now in
full view of Wgroollth I:notepads, with the rarknill lines
of the ladies themes dotted here and there, which hem this
Peculiarity, that it always lone better from afar. or, like
music, from over the an However, the Rada:lade is so
very well lemon if I say it loots "exceedingly petty." it
will qu.th mese. We are now aberea of Preston Ceset-
mud Stain. and as my ant.querian friend is On hand I
will endtaynir to Impart to him nine of that local know-
ledge which 1 used to waren and rejoin in. To the right
of this contemned station is Jordne Rill, which at on
tins. must hen bad • ?owe of no InoonsidersMe imenet.
seen the 'interne of Boman ?Ulu streets, and a luxe
temple baring been die:oared here. likey of these
Raman linen were douhtlem nimpled by the soldiers
and officers belonging to the iMtnenm military station. in
the neighboartinod—Dorchelter. Maiden Castle, gm., and
noweibly visitors and invalids who recovered or received
henit hoer the en Whist, the water at this point
being no ether, with mann. Imam, and free from reek,.
It was for thin purities that this temple was %ins,
remains the vette* offering. *genially of sot+ as base-
fitted by the na bathing. It was prolubly dedicate I to
linulapius, many of its oil-tinge having been dug up
cocernting chieflY of hornet of bulls, and ef birds of omen
having, as was believed, the power of foretellins the
future, either, as in the ease of the raves, tite„• by their
croaking voices. or in other bird., by their way of rising
and light. Within a few fields from thie spot Ina
dinnered some years an • very perfect Romeo reve-
tment They Pay that when • certain king lined of its
having been discovered, be inanniately ordered it shoold
be owned over again with earth. However, it in now
%wend, net era earth, burn enhatantial and dry shed,
and a small payment is rightly made for seeing it, with
other things wields have been found from time to time at
er near this spot It is surprising how very little this ,
pavement is known, many Weymoothians not even
having heard of it From here we have one of the
greamilest views of barrows in the country, on the range of
bills beyond, lauding no well out against the clear blue
sky. Many of :hese bat-roe, baring been opened, the
following email& Were found—ln seem earn ',attend
human hone, .'me beret, together with then of the
boron; small ewer- worn stonn, Ruch as may be found on
the beech at Ahhotalinry, nose moch smeller than then
!mewl at Poetised ; edeed stone implement. (these also
were possibly trlonginn of the deceased ehieften, the
former as ornatneet., there being hole. drilled thmarh
them se hoed' on.l the latter a. atone weapons),
end pine. of earthenw.re and tune. Thew pores
were in some cans i• ,red with large round watt,.
worn stones (aa pit...time Is now done with hoicks),
and such as mitht he, e leer' brought from off the adln•
cent shure. There in no dont t hue whet three fneeral
barrow% having been found no ditturbed, had been opened
onvinialr. in me harrow, lilt high, and which at one
time mune have been tonsiderehly higher, woo found •
sk leton in the ,-entre übout sft. from the surface, lying
with its head to the north. feet drawn up, and one hand
resting on the *east, bia no decayed is to soon fall into
bit.. In another harrow was found • large beep of ashen,
dnuhtJese the remelne of one of those funeral piles. In
another smaller bum. Rix skeletons pined In row.—
like the rent, being no perished that to handle them was
to powder them. In another, (turned of &human skeleton,
• stow vault, and inside • large urn, composed of a coarse
gritty clay, and quite full of burnt human bones. The
maternity of these berrows in shape, position, and
contents seem to show that they were the works of the
name rue of people; but who these were is a metier of
*peculation. If they were Romans where are the Roman
mine, sepulchral lamps, ix. I ',heron neither of these
Roman things have been found in any of these tumuli.
The cayenne of the urns, and also of the stone Monte-
menet and weapons found, seem to show that they were
not Roman ; and also that they indeed of burying in oat-
of-the-way plants on lonely MIL used to bury their chiefs
near town, and near highways. There is another reason
ittsglitey may he considered rather belonging to • race of
ans—peoleatily the ancient Brltone—for they are
said to hen need both funeral evetem•—that of burying
entire and also burning their dead. These barrows
then which we now B.• no well on our trip to Lul-
worth contain vesting of both practices—that of bury-
ing entire and burning the body. On the death of arrest
chief his slaves and winners were put to death to se-
na:many his departed spirit. Their bodies were Probably
burnt to sew and planed with the chief's lino In the
tame grave—that of their wader, or the entire amides,
being placed above that of the calcined human remains,
then earth-work waa thrown up, and hence the harrows
we an Having paned the stream and canteen,' look-
out at Orminiton, in are optinite Mouthed, with itn
delightfully green fields, enclosed at one Dart with thick
trees Bring so near the sea beach it is indeed euturisine
they have flourished se well At the font of White Noes.
or Whifnothe, are the remain* of what once was the
Burning Cliff An hypothesis bee ascribed this natural
burning edit in the pressen of arm beds of shale, the
oily nature of this congl .mersta mud and water.
from spring., finding its way through and into the
,evion, thereby decomposing it and riving out in-
tense best, oranquently iffniWou the •huey bpi
There was a ro,tain Owen, and when the Mg,
being beret not, fell in this cottage fell in with t. The
teat time smoke was torn smiling from it was about 40
Yearn ago It has beee said the last few times smoke was
seen coming from it lint it was not on fire by some of the
natives- Be that as it may, after having once seen the
large place which It comae and the burnt out appearance
which it presents to the eye, we can't my hut what then
was naturally fire there, that nature in the first suggested
it to the people, that they may have followed It op by the
old d ether combustibles for their own benefit. Whiter
Botha which we are now passing, I, the Blend noint
between Weymouth and Lulworth ; it is cemented entirely
of chalk. except at its hese, which has flint intending.,
and owing to the disintegration of the chalk, and the dint
being so much harder, and ceeennently not so wily acted
upon by wind and water, the dint names proepects frees
its neighbour, the chalk system giving it a most hsanUfral
grooved appearsoca To reckon the vest periods of years
It must have taken th's gigantic headland to bars formed,
all means of calculation eves as to the probable member
of years, entirely fails an Thom whom minds are capable
of scientific reasonings are oelY enabled to say It most
feting have bees an immense number of Years. The
whole of this range of hill. eater ding as It does so many
miles, the line of chalk being broken ben and there by
nun other forewarn% we., if wear, to believe is iteolon,
formed in deep water aid out of a couglomeratten tithe%
of animals, men of which were en smell that they could
only he eon through • very powerful microscope, so many
as 509 million. of shells of animals could have ben con-
tained in about one- *nth of an inch of tripoli*s rock—we
may wall say—" The works of the Lord are great" This
innate bed of merit» origin became dry lend, and every
portion of the dry land has, In all probability, been at one
time or other the bottom of the sea. In proof of this
umortion, we have the same process going on at this
moment the formation of the had of the Atlantic ()nen,
which I. in weery way dueller in its nature to this forma-
Von. In the crevices of thio magnificent headland we
me and hear the most clamorous troops of ma birds
crowded together during the needing inanOn. The
cormorant, goillemot. Puffin, gulls, Pork pigeons, now
and then • flick of jackdaw., the different screams of
which the clapping of oar paddle wheels and the wanes
dashing below snin to mock. On a very calm day the
deep blue oulour of the sea if here and beautiful pure
white cliff above, give a remarkably defined and sharp
appearance to the redactions in the blue in Its Amyl
beteg oonsiderably enhanced by there being a bright
yellow line of gravel dividing the NM from the cl if
towards the North-Haat end. Durdle Dorn le a mod
gigantic rock, haring ate appeeranos of one "monster vast
of ages peat," in the tert of grovelling for food at the
bottom of the on a• duck. do, the neck forming the anti
over the door, it is con.-.d here and there with large tuffi
of the Portland doh/ and the dark green of the samplare.
We are now come within half a gine of :Awn,* haying
gone nine-and-half mile* distance, from Weymouth to
Lulworth being ten miles, and this is the bolded
and grandest rocky share between them two places.
While in the act of admiring the ma enuring into to.
ape. through the arches the sea, as hollowed out, we
mein hear the captain's wi .se 'own" and with newsy It
SM. we are suddenle, as it were, shot into an..ther
world, or rather another sea,or. more correctly speaking,
Into Lulworth Cove, having quite the appenanc• of
having bean the craw of an extinct volcano. It is about
1,500 feet in diameter, and on the tight and left of our
entering this circular hay the tandems wash of the waves
on the.. rocks, instead of waiting and undermining it,
semen rather to harden it On our right we paned the
ifp.pagil Forest," of which mentton will be made presently.
Imuitedidely opposite, on entering. is a perpendicular cliff
of halbellaa height celled delant's Bach, it heathy muer
that outline; here I again draw your *Mention. If you
ban not &ready noticed it, to that peculiarly beautiful
appearance caused by the redaction tithe xhalk above,
nib this exceptioe—that whereas at White Nodal the
sea was entreaty of a deep blue, hen we have often •
• liaise hies, with perhaps here and there a yellow re.
I have often read It,, esagratil green, ming to
the tellesehke ethane= end demean of its water Melds
this natural brim, and the beano of theses being • pare
whin hod toward, the Bouthmest We, tbe reflection
with their variety of rids colours, radius the observer's
especially than ',Yen WYSS urn trained to gee colour
with geed Wilintra4lol6. Then es ,s • inert medal and
well known tannage who has now benne quite
amphibious in hi. wars: he is often loan taking to the
tenter up to his widget as if it were one of his element&
Having obeyed the shout of "Mow yer take* Ooze."
we peas from off the enemy over the high •tige, which to
on tine Idels wheels on to the tench rate the prentsful
yaw° ‘4l.4ll"uriki with its rreotal streams, trickling down
towards Its natural not into the sea. and etircelat'eg
through the bash, as if, like a bleating maid meeting her
toyer, it preferred its meeting with the roughs'
I. =WM by human yea At rigger &wet=
to same and interest the eerier Ineeihr, affording
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