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or second Celtic invasion. Here also, Mr. Green, in his ‘ Making 
of England,’ proves that the West Welsh withstood the Saxons for 
some time after the latter had penetrated as far as Wilton. Across 
this region, also, but a little to the east of the boundary defined by 
the barrows, runs the great Bokerly Dyke, about which much has 
been written, but nothing known. Its direction and position show 
it to have been a line of boundary defence thrown up by a western 
people against invaders from the north and east, and the proper 
examination of it hereafter will be of much interest.!_ On the whole the 
district in question is one which is especially worthy of the attention 
of anthropologists and of archzologists. The evidence to be derived 
from the tumuli is now nearly exhausted, for although more remain 
to be opened, the majority have already been rifled, and it is to the 
vestiges of the Romanised Britons that we must now turn for in- 
formation. Happily the antiquities of this hitherto almost un- 
explored period present themselves here in great abundance. All 
over the hilly district Sir Richard Hoare describes the villages of 
the Romanised Britons, He did not examine them carefully, as I 
have already said, but he made plans of a number of them, which 
are to be seen in his great work. Two of these villages are on my 
property, close to Rushmore, and during the last six years I have 
thoroughly excavated them, trenching over every foot of ground 
and bringing to light all the pits, ditches, and relics of the in- 
habitants that were to be found beneath the surface. The results 
of the first of these villages, viz., that on Woodcuts Common, have 
been put together in the 4to volume, containing seventy-four plates, 
which I am now issuing privately on the occasion of this meeting, 
and I hope io have the pleasure of conducting some of the Members 
of the Society over the villages themselves, and the Museum at 
Farnham, which contains the models of them and the relics found 
Since writing this, General Rivers has cut a section 34ft. wide completely 
through the ditch and rampart of Bockerly Dyke, and from the Roman pottery, 
fibule, and coins of Claudius Tetricus, and Constantinus, found deep in the body 
of the rampart, he considers it conclusively proved that the dyke was thrown up 
in late Roman or post-Roman times. The results of these excavations will be 
given in a second volume of his “ Excavations near Rushmore.” 
