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existing, made by the late Mr. Hatcher, are with other papers which 
belonged to that gentleman, in the possession of Mr. Stevens, one 
of the Secretaries of the Blackmore Museum, to whose kindness and 
courtesy I am indebted for the copies of them now laid before this 
meeting. The drawings show the pavements to have been of con- 
siderable beauty. I am not without hope that a future examination 
of the site, a portion of which is included within the limits of a 
meadow in my own occupation, may result in additional discoveries, 
And now I pass on to the more immediate subject of this paper, 
About a mile beyond West Dean, between the hamlets of East Dean 
and Lockerley, in the county of Hants, a little to the north of the 
railway, there is a wooded eminence known as “ Holbury Copse,” and 
corresponding with it a similar one further on, called “ Cadbury.” 
Both of these names are indicative of ancient encampments, The 
latter derived from the Keltic “cat” or “cad,” prelium, and 
“bury,” a place of defence, is not an uncommon designation of hill 
fortresses, and occurs in Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Devon- 
shire, as well as here in Hampshire. The former I suppose may be 
compounded of the Saxon “hol,” a hollow, or “ holt,’ a wooded 
eminence, and “bury,” as before; this last, at all events, would be 
eminently descriptive of the position of the place. Two sides of a 
large rectangular entrenchment may be traced amongst the trees 
upon the highest ground in Holbury Copse, the corresponding ones 
having been obliterated by repeated removals of gravel and sand, 
At the north-east angle of this entrenchment my late discoveries 
were made, and were the result, as is usually the case, of accident, 
A gamekeeper digging out a ferret from a rabbit-hole, had occasion 
to penetrate the bed of sand of which the ridge is composed, to a 
depth of three feet or more, and in so doing threw out numerous 
sherds of pottery. When these were brought to me, I saw at once 
that they were Roman, and having asked and obtained permission 
from Sir Francis H. Goldsmid, Bart., M.P., the owner of the 
property, to examine the nature of the deposit, fortified by the 
presence of the Rev. Edmund Kell, F.S.A., of Southampton, 
L. O. Fox, Esq., M.D., of Broughton, and the Rev. William Eyre, 
I made a careful excavation, in which, employing four labourers, I 
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