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These funereal relics were deposited in irregular order, three or four 
feet apart, and appeared as if placed on different occasions : they or- 
dinarily consisted, in this mode of interment, of a bottle-shaped vase, a 
Samian dish, and two or three other pieces of pottery placed round the 
urn containing the bones, which was always uppermost and upright, 
not reversed, like the urns of the early British. There were no remains 
of ashes, or anything to mark that the body was burnt near the spot. 
It is not unreasonable to suppose the tomb containing the interest- 
ing ornamented vase, (or by some thought drinking-cup,) with the 
stag and dog, to have been the grave of a Romanized British hunter, 
whose last request was to have represented on his urn his love of the 
chase. The wishes, as well as the character and pursuits of deceased 
persons, were delineated on funereal urns, as may be seen on Etruscan 
vases ; and this hunter might have died at a time when the Romans 
were destroying the woods, and clearing the ground for the purposes 
of agriculture. 
Imported red Samian pottery with stags and animals has been 
occasionally found in England; but this curious relic I think, from 
its material and manufacture, was made in this country, and is of 
double interest ; first, as a specimen of art, and secondly, as represent- 
ing animals almost extinct, which were formerly common in England, 
as geological evidence fully corroborates, and showing besides how 
the Red Deer, like the Ox, Goat, Wolf, and other animals, has been 
scattered and destroyed by the hand of civilization. 
To date the exact period of this burial-place is impossible : I possess 
coins of Vespasian and Marcus Aurelius, found not far from the spot, 
which would place it early in the Roman history of this kingdom, 
between seventeen or eighteen hundred years ago. 
On the 29th of August, about three weeks after the first dis- 
covery of urns, some more ground was removed near the same spot, 
