⁽¹⁾ Circle (k) excavated under the direction of P.J.F. for R.C.H.M. with the greatest assistance from M. V. Brian and others of the Nature Conservancy staff at Furzebrook House, Stoborough. The plan of this before excavation is shown in Fig. 2.

⁽²⁾ Dr Derek Ranwell of the Nature Conservancy has made detailed botanical examination of 40 of the circles which we hope will be published with our full account.

⁽³⁾ Known excavations in this area consist of that in (n. 1), others also by R.C.H.M. into circle (ad) (in collaboration with Dr G. W. Dimbleby) and into a number of mounds; by K. Wilson of Birkbeck College, Univ. of London across at least one circle and by D. P. Brachi of University College, Hull, into circles of our second group (c. 1950). Information about these last two investigations kindly supplied by Prof. R. D'O. Good, who has been of the greatest help throughout.

⁽⁴⁾ Hutchins, , History of Dorset, 3rd ed. (1870), I, 644, and iv, xxxiii.Google Scholar

⁽⁵⁾ Even allowing for the fact that in the late 16th century the peninsula had not built up the lagoon formations which have now pushed back the open sea on the east. Cf. G. Diver, ‘The physiography of the South Haven Peninsula’, Geographical Journal, LXXXI (1933), 404 ff.

⁽⁶⁾ Hutchins, op. cit., 651; Morris, C. (Ed.) The Journeys of Celia Fiennes (1947), 10–11.Google Scholar

⁽⁷⁾ Papers read to the Purbeck Society (1860), 247–249.Google Scholar