Contents of volume 115

for 1993, published 1994

The buildings of Shaftesbury Abbey in the mid-sixteenth century, FC Hopton, 1

Manorial stewards and the conduct of manorial affairs, JH Bettey, 15

The rural parish church in Dorset in the eighteenth century, Glanville J Davies, 21

A Dorset carrier in the eighteenth century, Dorian Gerhold, 29

Dorset limekilns: a first survey, Peter H Stainer, 33

Excavation of a Bronze Age round barrow and Napoleonic signal station at Golden Cap, Stanton St Gabriel, Martin Papworth, 51

An early Iron Age hilltop settlement at Heron Grove, Sturminster Marshall, Dorset: first excavation report, John Valentin, 63

Excavations at Dorchester Hospital (site C), Dorchester, Dorset, J Patrick Greene, 71

Excavations at Hamworthy in 1974, Keith Jarvis, 101

Melbury Abbas: Medieval pottery in perspective, MS Ross, 111

Witchampton: village origins, Teresa Hall, 121

Building stones of Dorset, part 2: Chideock to Broadwindsor - Middle and Upper Lias, Jo Thomas, 133

A lower molar of Stereognathus sp. (Reptilia, Therapsida) from the Bathonian of southern England, PC Ensom, 139

A supplement to the insect fauna from the Purbeck Group of Dorset, F Clifford, R Coram, EA Jarzembowski and AJ Ross, 143

Dorset Archaeology in 1993

Assessments and evaluations

Bridport Community Hospital, Allington, Alan Graham and Julian Richards, 147

Blandford Camp, Andrew Weale and Julian Richards, 147

Stour Park, Blandford St Mary, Alan Graham and Peter W Cox, 147

West View filling station, Charminster Road, Bournemouth, Peter W Cox, 147

Whitfield, Bradford Peverell, Jacqueline Dodd and Julian Richards, 147

Archaeological assessment on the line of the proposed Chideock and Morcombelake bypass (SY 377 937 - 449 928), an interim statement, David Alan Higgins and Peter John Davey, 147-9

Dorey's Farm, East Holme, Peter W Cox, 148

Dudsbury Road, Ferndown, DR Watkins, 148

Ringstead Farm, near Ringstead, Osmington, John Valentin, 149

Parley Court Farm, Hurn, AP Fitzpatrick, 149

Manton Road, Hamworthy, Poole, DR Watkins, 149

Tatnam Farm Middle School, Poole, Peter W Cox, 149

Shaftesbury Abbey, Julian Richards, 149

Archaeological evaluation trenches, Shapwick village, Martin Papworth, 149-150

Foster's School, Sherborne, Peter W Cox, 150

Churchill Close, Sturminster Marshall, Peter W Cox, 150

Sutton Poyntz water treatment works, Kit Watson, 150

High Street, Toller Porcorum, R Edwards, 150

West Stafford borehole, John Valentin and Julian Richards, 150

Chickerell, Weymouth, Jacqueline Dodd, 150

Wimborne Post Office, East Street, Wimborne Minster, Roland JC Smith, 150

Gatemore Road, Winfrith Newburgh, Julie Gardiner, 150-1

Excavations

Excavations at Corfe Castle 1993, David Thackray and Martin Papworth, 151-2

Dorchester First School, Peter Bellamy, Alan Graham and Julian Richards, 152

Fieldwork and excavation on the Dorchester Roman aqueduct, summer 1993, WG Putnam, 152-3

Chelwood, Hooke, R Edwards, 153

Sutton Poyntz, Mick Rawlings and Kit Watson, 153-5

Excavations near Tolpuddle Ball, Dorset, an interim report, DA Higgins, 155-8

Toller Porcorum excavations 1993, John Gale, 158

Bronze Age finds at Warmwell Quarry, West Knighton, Lynne Bevan, 158-60

Worth Matravers 1993, David A Hinton and DPS Peacock, 160

Watching briefs

Swannery car park, Abbotsbury, Julian Cotton, 160

Bestwall Quarry gravels project, interim note, Lilian Ladle, 160

Bryanston School, Blandford, Julian Cotton, 160

South Walks housing project, South Street, Bridport, Alan Graham, 160

Durley Chine, Bournemouth, DR Watkins, 160-1

Halves Cottages, Corfe Castle, John Valentin, 161

Ricardo's Yard, Dorchester, Jacqueline Dodd, 161

Squirrel Cottage, East Holme, Jacqueline Dodd, 161

A37 road improvements, Evershot, Peter W Cox, 161

Furzey Island, Julian Cotton, 161

Central Park restaurant, Poole, Julian Cotton and Julian Richards, 161

King's Head, High Street, Poole, DR Watkins and KW Collins, 161

Poole Pottery, The Quay, Poole, DR Watkins, 161

Wheelers Lane, Bearwood, Poole, DR Watkins and KW Collins, 161

Northern Lights, Shaftesbury, Julian Richards, 161

St John's Hill, Wareham, Jacqueline Dodd, 161-2

Wareham Lady St Mary, St John's Hill, Lilian Ladle, 162

Wareham Lady St Mary, 6 Ropers Land, Lilian Ladle, 162

Brookside Farm, Wimborne Minster, Andrew Weale, 162

Earthwork and standing building surveys

A circular earthwork at Nyland, Kington Magna, Dorset, M Ross, 162-4

Guildhall, Market Street, Poole, LM Anderson, 164

Thorngrove, Gillingham, Dorset, M Ross, 164-5

White Mill, Shapwick, Martin Papworth, 165

Knighton Farm, Borough of Poole, Carrie M Hearne, 165

Shorter Contributions

Archaeological assessment for the proposed Tolpuddle and Puddletown bypass, David Alan Higgins and Peter John Davey, 166

Mary Ozard and `The Affair of the Bastard', Glanville J Davies, 168

Thomas Hardy and the Alarm, George Lanning, 170

The water supply of Kington Magna, MS Ross, 173

Natural History Reports

Important recently collected dinosaurian remains from the Lower Kimmeridge Clay at Weymouth, Adrian J Brokenshire and Jane B Clarke, 177

Occurrence of Foraminifera in the Portland Stone formation (Portlandian, Upper Jurassic) of Holworth, JD Radley, 178

Feeding habits of Caturus and new evidence of coleoid distribution from the Kimmeridge Clay of Dorset, Steve M Etches and Jane B Clarke, 179

The fauna and flora of the Sunnydown Farm footprint site and associated sites: Purbeck Limestone formation, Dorset, PC Ensom, SE Evans, JE Francis, Z Kielan-Jaworowska and AR Milner, 181

Kulindrichnus: a hitherto unrecorded trace fossil from the Kimmeridge Clay, Kimmeridge, Dorset, PC Ensom, 182

A new vertebrate trackway from the Intermarine Member, Purbeck Limestone Formation, Dorset, PC Ensom, 183

Calcite blocks near Winterbourne Stickland, Dorset, PC Ensom, 184

An unusual tool-mark in the Purbeck Limestone Formation, Durlston Bay, Dorset, PC Ensom, 185

Dorset rainfall 1993, DJ Paxman, 186

Dorset botany in 1993, D Pearman, 191

Marine invertebrates, John Hawthorne, 193

Lepidoptera, Alan T Bromby, 194

Land arthropods, NR Webb, 194

Dolichovespula media (Retzius), SPM Roberts, 195

Dorset hoverfly report 1993, ET and DA Levy, 196

Weevils of the genus Cathormiocerus in Dorset (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), MG Morris, 196

Amphibians, Robert V Skinner, 197

Birds in Dorset 1993, Paul M Harris, 198

Mammals, EM Keats, 198

Obituaries

Pamela May Cunningham, 201

Dame Elisabeth Frink and Alex Csáky, 202

AT Stangroom, 203

Index, 205