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feilds of the house, another Barrow * of exactly the same con- 

 struction as that found yesterday, only Larger, it being 100 paces 

 in lengh : its bearings also were different, it being pretty near 

 East and West. It had visibly been opend in two places, which 

 made me curious to enquire what had been found. Upon my 

 asking, the Young M r Charm inform'd me that his father had 

 opend it about forty years ago. One opening at the Eastern 

 extremity he carried down a little way below the surface of the 

 real Ground, when he found many Bones, Brass heads of Spears 

 and some Coin, all which were sent up to L d Pembroke. The 

 other, situate about one third of the whole Lengh of the Barrow, 

 more to the westward, was never carried deep enough, so nothing 

 was discoverd in it. On the side of the Barrow found Thesium 

 linophyllum and Othonna integrifolia [Senecio campestris]. 



1 8. This morn exceeding fine; went with the family to see 

 M r Portman's, situate upon the River Stour, just at the entrance 

 of the town of Blanford. It has from the Road, all the appear- 

 ance of a very pretty Place, but upon our finding M r Portman at 

 home, for Reasons of Ceremony, we were not permitted to see 

 it. In the way, however, discoverd a third Barrow like the other 

 two, which certainly is what the Bishop meant, being situate 

 upon the Downs. My time however is now so short, that it is 

 impossible to get men together to open it. 



* ANOTHER BARROW. The Barrows which Banks saw this day and the day 

 before, are thus described in Hutchins' History of Dorsetshire, vol. iii., 

 2nd edition, 1813, p. 168. 



" There are two Barrows about f mile distant from each other, one of them 

 100 yards in length, the other about 60. The latter stands partly in the parish 

 of Chettle, and partly in that of Tarent Gunville : the boundary of the two 

 parishes passes lengthways over the summit of the Barrow, and divides it in 

 equal portions, one the property of the Marquis of Buckingham, the other of 

 Mr. Chafin. One end of the Marquis's part was formerly taken into Lord 

 Melcombe's park, and was excavated to make a grotto : many human bones were 

 dug out, but immediately interred again by his lordship's orders." 



" The other Barrow is situate in a cornfield, near Mr. Chafin's house, and he 

 has been credibly informed that about the beginning of the last century, an 

 opening was made in the side of this Barrow, and that beneath the level of the 

 surface of the field a great quantity of human bones were found, and with them 

 heads of spears, and relics of other warlike instruments, which were presented 

 to the Earl of Pembroke, and are at this time at Wilton House." 



