192 CHALBURY RINGS AND RIMBURY. 



Ridgeway some years ago. It consisted of six flags, very neatly 

 put together. Of the oblong kist-vaens, among frequent 

 instances, may be mentioned several, perhaps many, uncovered 

 at Portland. The contents, and an interesting drawing, of one 

 of these are in the Dorset Museum. They are, by the way, very 

 noteworthy, as seeming to show that the burial was that of a 

 Celt in Roman times. 



These few rough notes on Chalbury Rings and its burial hill- 

 top should not close without a word of the silent appeal of the 

 place to the imagination. Surely a thought picture, dim and 

 doubtful, but striking, is pourtrayed when we stand on this 

 impressive spot. Whosoever has in reality heard the Celtic 

 " keen " will likely enough hear it at Chalbury in phantasy. If, 

 that is, he tries to recall to sight the blue-tattoo' d clansmen and 

 women filing down Chalbury and along to Rimbury, over the 

 orange-brown bents, to bury their dead. And what a weird 

 " coronach " floated out, may be, to Weymouth Bay, and startled 

 the crew of Gallic long-ship there riding and echoed dimly- 

 back landwards from high Ridgeway with its crowded white 

 barrows. Yes, our fancy, as our bodily eyesight, has plenty of 

 scope as we stand on Chalbury Rings. 



