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termed the South Lodge Camp in the Park, Its position is figured 

 in Plate Ixxx., Vol. II. of my " Excavations in Cranborne Chase/' 

 and it is also marked on the map of the Park, Plate I., Vol. I. of 

 the same work. The five tumuli, therein figured, were examined 

 in 1880 and 1884, and proved to be barrows o£ the Bronze Age- 

 not that any bronze implements were actually found in them, but 

 the urn, the pottery, and the interments by cremation, were such 

 as are recognised as belonging to that period. In No. 3 barrow, 

 two central interments and eight secondary ones by cremation were 

 found, in small basins cut out of the chalk floor, each containing, 

 besides the burnt bones, fragments of coarse British pottery placed 

 to mark th« spot (quality No. 1, Plate II. of the accompanying 

 table), and one by inhumation, crouched up, in the side of a 

 causeway over the little ditch surrounding the barrow, and on the 

 south side. The finding of a secondary interment by inhumation, 

 ■crouched up, was singular, and might, in some places, have been 

 supposed to argue a very early date, but, as it has subsequently been 

 proved by excavations in the Romano- British villages of this 

 neighbourhood, that the erouched-up position, for burial, was used 

 into Roman times, it is probable that this inhumation interment was 

 of that date, rather than earlier, and it seems possible, therefore, that 

 these Bronze Age tumuli were used for secondary interments, even 

 up to Roman times. ^ An urn (quality No. 1 of table, Plate II.) 

 was found in barrow No. 4 ; and in the silting of the diteh of No. 3 

 fragments of Roman pottery, including Samian, were found ; none 

 but British having been found in the barrow itself. These tumuli, 

 as shown by the map. Vol. II., PI. Ixxx. " Excavations,'^ were 

 only 350ft. distant from the South Lodge Camp, and its proximity 

 to them led to the conjecture that the camp might also be found 

 to be of the Bronze Age, but of course no certainty can be argued 

 from proximity in the case of such earthworks. 



The earthwork, Plate I., is of squarish, or rather lozenge-shaped 

 form, and the sides are irregular and not in straight lines, as a 



' The crouched position was used in the Bronze Age, in this neighbourhood, 

 as well as in Romano-British times. Two skeletons so placed, with drinking 

 vessels at their feet, have beeu found near here without any tumuli over them. 



