Contents of volume 107

for 1985, published 1986

A Bastard Barometer, Polly Legg, 1-5
Dorset Apothecaries' Tokens and their Issuers, T. D. Whittet, 7-9
Swanage Local Board of Health 1873-1894, Margaret Emms, 11-18
The History of the Morden Duck Decoy, E. D. V. Prendergast, 19-22 (also reprinted)
Kington Magna: a Parish Survey, M. S. Ross, 23-46
Excavations within No. 8 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset, Margaret Cox, 47-54
- Pottery from No. 8 Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Merry Ross, 51-52
- 16th-17th cent. diet from Shaftesbury, Dorset; the animal remains from No. 8 Gold Hill, Dale Serjeantson, 53-54
The Romano-British site at Walls, Puncknowle, C. J. Bailey, 55-86
- Brooches from Walls, Puncknowle (Romano-British), S. A. Butcher, 76-80
Intra-site Patterning in the Flint Assemblage from the Dorset Cursus, 1984, Julie Gardiner, 87-93
Excavation of a Ring Ditch and Associated Settlement Features on the South Dorset Ridgeway, Winterborne St. Martin, Dorset, P. J. Woodward, Derek Grieve and Susan M. Davies, 95-100
Excavations at Alington Avenue, Fordington, Dorchester, 1984-1985: interim report, Susan M. Davies, Linda C. Stacey and Peter J. Woodward, 101-110
Maiden Castle Project 1985: an interim report, Niall Sharples, 111-119
Reptiles from the Upper Jurassic Clay (Kimmeridgean, Upper Jurassic) of the vicinity of Egmont Bight, Dorset, Michael Alan Taylor and Michael J. Benton, 121-125
Some Little Known Jurassic Icthyosaurs from Dorset, J.B.Delair, 127-134
The Effect of the Blackstone Oil Shale Exposure on Intertidal Organisms at Clavell's Hard, Kimmeridge, Dorset, U.K.: a review of an ecological and experimental study, D. L. Holland, R. Huxley, E. M. Hill and D. J. Crisp, 135-139
Marine Habitats and Associations on the Dorset Coast, C. D. Roberts, R. A. Brachi, K. J. Collins, I. M. Dixon, K. Harrison and J. Hodder, 141-151
Dorset Archaeology in 1985
- Culverwell, Portland, Mesolithic Site, interim excavation report 1985, S. Palmer, 153
- Interim Report on a Hoard of Middle Bronze Age Palstaves from Bournemouth, Keith S. Jarvis, 153
- Flints from Whitcombe, Robin Ellis and Alan Hunt, 153
- A Burnt Deposit at Blandford, Martin T. Green, 153
- Observations for Sea-Level Changes on the South-East Side of Furzey Island, Poole Harbour, Keith Jarvis, 153-154
- A Crouched Burial from Broadmayne, Dorset, Richard J. Hewitt, 154
- An Unrecorded Ring Ditch in Wimborne St. Giles Parish, Martin T. Green, 154-155
- Observations along a Wessex Water Authority Pipe-line, Stinsford, Crossroads to Robin's Barrow, Keith Speller, 155-156
- Hengistbury Head 1985, Barry Cunliffe, 156-157
- Excavations and Survey on Furzey Island, Poole Harbour, Peter W. Cox, 157-158
- New archaeological discoveries in eastern Dorset, Ken Standing, 158
- Badbury Rings, Durotrigian stater, Jeff Collins, 158
- A Burial from Friars Close, Dorchester, Linda C. Stacey, 158-159
- Coastal sites and Observations at Hamworthy, K. S. Jarvis, 159
- Boat House Clump, Upton, Romano-British Saltworking Site, K. S. Jarvis, 159-162
- A Disc Brooch from Badbury Rings, K. S. Jarvis, 162
- Stour Valley Gravels Project, I. P. Horsey and K. S. Jarvis, 163
- Halstock Roman Villa, 1985 Excavation, R. N. Lucas, 163-164
- Excavations at Bucknowle Farm, Jeoffrey Collins, N. H. Field and A. Light, 164
- Probable Roman Villa Site at Little Kington Farm, West Stour, M. S. Ross, 164-165
- Observations at 37 South St., Dorchester, Paul Pearce, 165-166
- Observations on Dorchester Town defences, 1985: West Walks, Bowling Alley Walk, South Walks, P. J. Woodward and Paul Pearce, 166
- Excavations and Observations in the Vicinity of Acland Road, the Old Market Car Park, and South Walks, Dorchester, David Batchelor, Keith Speller, Paul Pearce and Peter J. Woodward, 166-168
- Christchurch - King's Arms Hotel, Watching Brief, site X18, K. S. Jarvis, 168-170
- Excavations at Christchurch Priory, 1985, K. S. Jarvis, 170
- Pound Lane, Wareham, Keith S. Jarvis, 170
- Medieval Enamelled Heraldic Pendant from Shaftesbury, Martin T. Green and Nic Griffiths, 170-171
- Observations at Grammar School Lane, Wimborne, Teresa Hall, 171
- Langton Herring Cross, Laurence Keen, 172
- The Parish Church, Wimborne St. Giles, Laurence Keen, 172
- Wessex Water Authority Reinforcing Main, Kington Magna - Marnhull, M. S. Ross, 172
- Maiden Newton, Alan Hunt, 172
- Bishop's Caundle, Alan Hunt, 172
- Radipole, Alan Hunt, 172
- Woolcombe, Alan Hunt, 172-173
- Dorchester Castle, Jo Draper, 173
- The Old Malthouse, Abbotsbury, Alan H. Graham, 173
- The Studland Bay Wreck, Interim Report, K. S. Jarvis and I. P. Horsey, 173-174
- Wall at Lyme Regis, John Fowles, 174
- Alington Street, Dorchester, Jo Draper, 174
Shorter contributions on archaeological topics
- Thickthorn Long Barrow, a new assessment, Richard Bradley and Roy Entwistle, 174-176
- Examination of an Iron Age Metalworking File from Gussage All Saints, Vanessa Fell, 176-178
- The Hengistbury Whetstone, M. H. Rupert Cook, 178
Natural History reports 1985
- Rainfall, D. J. Paxman, 179 and 180
- Geology, Paul C. Ensom, 179-192
  - A thecideidine brachiopod from the Eype Nodule Bed (Middle Lias), Dorset 179
  - Pygurus blumenbachii Koch and Dunker (Echinoidea) and Stylina sp. (Anthozoa) from the Corallian of North Dorset, 179
  - Hydroid-serpulid symbiosis from the Upper Fuller's Earth Clay (Bathonian) of Dorset, 181
  - Evidence of mass mortality of decapod crustaceans in the Upper Kimmeridge Clay, Dorset ?, 181-183
  - Purbeckopus pentadactylus Delair: a figured specimen recovered, 183 and (fig.) 182
  - Ichnites sp. from the Upper Cypris Clays and Shale Member, (Purbeck Limestone Formation), near Harman's Cross, Dorset, 183
  - The burrows of arthropods and a bivalve from the basal Gault, Ringstead, Dorset, 183-184
  - Fish scales preserved in flint, 184
  - Palaeontological Association field trip to Dorset, September 1985, 184
  - Notes on a Bajocian Stromatolitic Limestone from Burton Bradstock, J. D. Radley, 184-186
  - A new Middle Bathonian ammonite horizon, H. S. Torrens, 186
  - Derived ostracods from WB153 (Scallop Member, Purbeck Limestone Formation) of Worbarrow Tout, Dorset, R. G. Clements, 186-187
  - Algal laminae with calcite pseudomorphs after gypsum from the Middle Purbeck of Durleston Bay, Dorset, J. E. Andrews, 187-189
  - Evidence for Bathonian and Portlandian Synsedimentary Earth Movements in Dorset, S. D. Lake, 189-190
  - Brecciated pipes and the Broken Beds, Purbeck Limestone Formation, S. D. Lake, 191-192
- Botany, A. Horsfall, 192-193
- Marine invertebrates, J. B. Hawthorne, 193
- Arthropods, N. R. Webb, 193-196
  - New and Notable Weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionidae) in Dorset, 1983-1985, M. G. Morris, 194-196
- Lepidoptera, Alan T. Bromby, 196
  - The Spring Migration of the Painted Lady Butterfly (Cynthia cardui) to Dorset in 1985, N. R. Webb, 197
- Fish, M. Ladle, 197
- Amphibians, R. V. Skinner, 198
- Reptiles, R. V. Skinner, 198
- Mammals, E. M. Keats, 198-200
Obituary
- K. C. Collingwood Selby, 201
Index, 202-204

11 June 2006