28 JULY 1950, Page 18

Poundbury

SIR,—In H. J. Massingham's review of Dorset by Eric Benfield appear the words: " Poundbury is Danish, not pre-Roman." Might I call your contributor's attention to the report of the excavation of Pound- bury in 1939 by Miss K. M. Richardson, F.S.A. (Antiquaries' Journal. XX. 429 ff.)? Poundbury is there shown to be an Iron Age earthwork, and is therefore distinctly pre-Roman, and decidedly not Danish.— Yours faithfully, A. C. C. BRODRIBB. Frome Cottage, Frampton, Dorset.