Contents of volume 71

for 1949, published 1950

Annual Review, 4-40
Archaeology and History
- Interim Report on Preliminary Excavations at Hod Hill, l949, J. W. Brailsford, 41-50
- Some Further Iron Age and Roman Sites in the Isle of Purbeck, W. H. C. Frend, 51-53
- Excavations by the Shaftesbury Historical Society at Castle Hill, Shaftesbury, 1947-1949, S. E. Rigold, 54-57
- A Note on the Excavations at Corfe Castle, 1949, G. E. Chambers, 58-59
- Archaeological notes, 1949, R. A. H. Farrar, 60-72
  - Bere Regis, Bere Down: Badbury-Dorchester Roman road, 60
  - Cann, Hawksdean Lane, (N. Teulon Porter), 60
  - Cann, Mampitts Lane, (N. Teulon Porter), 60-61
  - Chideock, Roman route from Dorchester to Exeter, (F. Moore), 61-62
  - Corfe Castle, Fitzworth Point, (J. B. Calkin and R. B. Samson), 62-63
  - Dorchester, Colliton Park, 63
  - Dorchester, County Hospital, Somerleigh Road, 63-64
  - Dorchester, the Grammar School, 64
  - Dorchester, Wollaston House, Durngate Street, 64-65
  - Dorchester, Trinity Street, W. H. Christopher's showrooms, 65
  - East Stoke, Rushton Common, (R. D. Sansom), 65-66
  - Hinton Parva, Stanbridge, (J. B. Calkin), 66
  - Langton Matravers, Acton, (J. B. Calkin), 66
  - Poole, Hamworthy, Carter's tile works, (K. A. P. Smith and H. P. Smith), 66-67
  - Poole, Kinson, Wallis Down, (H. J. Case and P. Ashbee), 67
  - Shaftesbury (St Peter), Layton House, (N. Teulon Porter), 67
  - Sherborne, the pre-Conquest cathedral, (A. R. Dufty), 67-68
  - Sherborne (Castleton), the Castle, (C. E. Bean), 68
  - Sherborne, Charlock Hill, (J. Fowler), 68
  - Studland, Hill Close, (J. B. Calkin), 68
  - Swanage, Ulwell, (J. B. Calkin), 68
  - Tyneham, Povington Barrow, (W. H. C. Frend), 68-69
  - Wimborne St Giles, Oakley Down, (F. Montagu-Puckle), 69-70
  - Wyke Regis reservoir, (S. E. Barrett and K. C. C. Selby), 70-72
- Masons' Marks in Dorset Churches, W. Beaumont-Slegge, 73-83
- Earnley: a Lost Place Name Recovered, C. D. Drew, 84-87
- The Pirates of Purbeck, C. L'Estrange Ewen, 88-109
- Dorset Incumbents, 1542-1731, part II, G. D. Squibb, 110-132
Natural History
- Report on Dorset natural history for 1949 (except Birds and Lepidoptera), W. D. Lang, 133-137
- Report on Dorset Birds, 1949, K. B. Rooke, 138-165
- Fighting Swans, W. D. Lang, 166-169
- Report on Dorset Lepidoptera, 1949, A. G. B. Russell, 170-174
- Notes on the Structure of the Poxwell Pericline, and the Ridgeway Fault at Bincombe Tunnel, Dorset, B. H. Mottram, 175-183 (with 1 fold-out map)
- More about Mary Anning, including a Newly Found Letter, W. D. Lang, 184-188
- Return of rainfall in Dorset, 1949, 189-194
Index, 195-200