. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 62.— Mizmaze, St. Catherines Hill, Winchester. (W. H. M.) enclosed by a bank three feet high. He adds: I am sorryto say the turf has grown over the little trenches and thatit is now impossible to trace the pattern of the Frederick Treves, in his Highways and Byways inDorset, 1906, speaks of this maze as having consistedof low banks and trenches arranged in an intricatefigure, which the youths of the village, accompanied nodoubt by the maidens, were wont to thread at certainseasons of the year. He states
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. Fig. 62.— Mizmaze, St. Catherines Hill, Winchester. (W. H. M.) enclosed by a bank three feet high. He adds: I am sorryto say the turf has grown over the little trenches and thatit is now impossible to trace the pattern of the Frederick Treves, in his Highways and Byways inDorset, 1906, speaks of this maze as having consistedof low banks and trenches arranged in an intricatefigure, which the youths of the village, accompanied nodoubt by the maidens, were wont to thread at certainseasons of the year. He states that it is on high ground80 in an open field and that of the winding passages no tracenow survives. Only the low bank and ditch surroundingthe maze remain visible. At Pimperne, not far from Blandford, there was for-merly a maze of a unique design (). John Aubrey,. Fig. 63.— Troy-town, Pimperne, Dorset. (Hutchins.) writing in 1686, says it was much used by the youngpeople on Holydaies and by ye School-boies. The pathwas bounded by ridges about a foot in height. The mazewas destroyed by the plough in 1730. The memory ofanother turf maze in the same country is preserved inthe name of Troy-town, applied to a locality about threeg 81 miles north-east of Dorchester. One is also said to haveexisted near Bere Regis. Aubrey goes on to refer toanother at West Ashton, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire,and one on the Cotteswold Downes, where Mr. DoversGames were celebrated.,, He mentions them also in hisNatural History and Antiquities of Surrey, and con-cludes his reference by quoting what he calls a PoeticalDescription of them, by Thomas Randolph, a poet anddramatist of the seventeenth century, the so-calleddescription being nothing more than an indictment ofthe lazy shepherd swain, who prefers to spend his leisurein sleeping under a bush when, according to th
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