that was one of the camps o£ the Durotiiges, the people who inhahited 

 the hill country of ancient Dorset. The word " Durotriges " meant 

 " dwellers by the sea.'' Ciwsar told them that the Veneti, a Gallic 

 tribe who occupied what they now called Brittany, were accustomed to 

 navi(,^ate backwards and forwards between Britain and Gaul. Mr. Warne 

 conjectured, and he believed that his opinion was sound, that the Durot- 

 riges were a branch of the Veneti who came over to Dorset. Sir Talljot 

 proceeded minutely to define the boundaries of the territory supposed to 

 have been occupied by the Durotriges in the littoral district between the 

 mouths of the Hampshire Avon and the Axe in Devon. The camps of 

 the Durotriges were some of the finest in England, but of course Maiden 

 Castle was the queen of all these camps. In Dorset there were 24 or 28 

 of these camps, counting both oppida and castra, for he failed to perceive 

 the distinction which Mr. Warne drew between them. Those were the 

 Durotriges who inhabited Dorset when Vespasian came over. They were 

 described as living on milk and flesh, and it might be supposed that they 

 covered in the tops of their pits with wattled roofs and there passed their 

 time. They worked the country down below their camps, but used these 

 places in times of war as camps of refuge for their cattle, cattle being in 

 those days the staple wealth, the " money " of the people, as indeed the 

 Latin word for money signified, pecnnia being derived from peciis, cattle. 

 All that country round was then one vast, uninterrupted forest, of which 

 traces still remained in the numerous trees visible in the surrounding 

 landscape. There, probably, dwelt an earlier race than the Durotriges, 

 about whom nothing was known save that they had no knowledge 

 of metals whatever, and no coins" such as the Durotriges had. 

 They had long heads and little bodies, and Avere of a very low 

 type of mankind. The long-headed men buried their dead in 

 long barrows, and the round-headed Durotriges in round barrows. 

 Possibly these long-headed men were conquered by the Durotriges and 

 lived in the swamps below those camps, which were perhaps made in 

 order to keep them down. When tlie Roman Conqueror came circum- 

 stances compelled him to subdue those of the Durotriges who would not 

 submit to his yoke, and he occupied some of those camps. Athough the 

 Tout was not one of the first-class camps, yet it stood in a magnificent 

 commanding position at the convergence of three ridges, with three 

 combes between. On the other side, on a fine day, he believed one 

 could see the Isle of Wight. He did not see any sign of wheie the 

 occui)ants of the camp could have got water. General Pitt Rivers 

 suggested that they used skins to bring water up from the marshy places 

 below. Of course it should be borne in mind that the whole country w as 



