The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1871-08-29 00:00:00

htenth eon/iota It endonistedlT stands in Its original
position, sod Owes it.; orrtituvat•on to iti greatet hard-
Ma. hatitgen..blr-d it to
tic ret..t rrelisatuulus,:fhi :broods:or":
aol t n. otab.s quanuti sot it err carried away
u lug ; but W4OlOllOO of the quality of
0 0,, f the track that leads to it olds little
lutport.non to the statement. Whilst none can posi-
tiiimi7 affirm that the striae was net raised to its present
Position by human 'money, it is by no means Improhe
awe that it owes Its itgurn to that moue. Oertainly the
conicd bill on which it @tends has all the look of being
artificially shaped. I will conolude by giving the
dimensions of the stone, and of the bill, as I god them
In Hutchins. The conical hill is 90ft. in prepaudienlee
height, the slope of the steepest (the east) side is 360t1.,
on the west it is much leas steep. It is clothed with
heather' gorse, and fern. Agglestone Is 18(1. high, the
girth stbottom is 601 t., in the middle 80f1.; near this
top 90(t. smaller stones, one of 16, another of
9 tons, or thereabout, are found on the top of the hill
by the tide of the greater stone. The dimensions of
the Yuekstone are about 1011. by 811.

Friday was a lovely day, and • large party proceeded
to Dorchester by special train, whence till), took
carriages for Fiddletown, about Ave mire distant. 1.130
church was visited, and its prionipal features as well
as the monuments therein were explained by Mr. J.
PlancLe. The church is dedicated to St. Mary, sad
has an embattled tower, being partly In the deooritted
and later English styles. There is a noble aeries of
monuments, several effigies of the Martin family, and •
Mtge number of altar tombs Ludt:roues. From hence
they went to Hie fine old mama house at Athelhainpe
too, thrown open to their inspection by Mrs. Wood,
and Mr. Roberts acted as eloerene. Luncheon was the
next beeimet, and then they visited MI- Hannau clamp
at Milborne St. Andrews, coaled Weath-renry cmatleg
which is an oblong duuble-entrenchei camp. Neat Hers
Regis was reached, curl the Rev, F. Ware described
the church. It M delicatod to St. John tine Baptist,
isancient and most varied in form. It ha• •ro of
nary, d oak, ,aid to how- been th re by Cr. dinal
Merton, who gm founded • chautry in the church.
There are the remains of some canopied tombs in
Purbeck marble, belen,ing to the Tunerville family.
and ancient altars. :Thder the window', and above
the etch.' of the nave, are images inn wood, said by
Hutchins to repre,eut the twelve apostles, but it was
clear that one of them i. the effir y of • cardinal, pro-
bably Morton. On the way haek, the party halted to
view the ancient inan•ion of Woo isfurd llattle, now
the farm house uf Mr. Atkinson. It is • handsome
Tailor structore, though rather marred from an archie-
olopul point of view by modern "restoration."
Arriving at Moreton midway station, they took train
for Weymouth.
There we. again a large and fashionable assembly in
the evening, tin spite of the counter-eta-actions of Mr.
Avant's coLcirt, which might have formed an excess
for absence on the part of many ladies and gentlemen,
who, however, showed that even mu/ill's charms were
successfully competed with by the attraetions of the
relics of the past.