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I knew not of its existence. I was with hiui at the discovery 

 and remember his joy. It is now placed i;nrestored in the new 

 building. It is of very early date and beautiful design. 



Plush abounds in antiquities. Entering the village horn 

 Dorchester on the left are Lynchets or terraces, made in all 

 probability that the slopes might be cultivated. Tumuli and pit 

 dwellings are plentiful on the Downs ; the Roman Fosse is clearly 

 marked, and Nettlecomb Tout* has much of its Celtic earthwork 

 remaining. 



On Whatcombe Down, between Buckland and Plush, is a small 

 Roman camp of observation, commanding a view across the county 

 from north to south ; also the site of an ancient British village. 



In 1872 seven British urns were found in a barrow by the late 

 Mr. Charles Miller, on the Down between Plush and Liscombe, A 

 Plush labourer,! who assisted in opening the barrow, says these 

 urns were only about three feet below the surface. 



Alas ! for Dorset that the new museum was not then in existence ! 

 Professor Rolleston, of Oxford, took charge of these interesting 

 remains, and placed them in the Ashmolean jMuseum. ]\Ir. Evans, 

 the curator, says these urns evidently contained cremated remains. 

 Calcined bones are still in one of them. They are of rude British 

 fabric. Tliree of them are fragmentary, with a rough indented 

 herring-bone pattern. 



In 1879 Mr. Cunnington found, under an immense cairn in a 

 Plush barrow, an urn of dark imperfectly burnt ware, about nine 

 inches long and nine inches broad, with faint rudiments of plain 

 bands round it, and two out of probably four smaller knobs in the 

 side. This urn is in our museum. 



* Tills name seems to have been larL^cly applied by the .Saxons t<» hills 

 of this kind consecrated to the worship of tlieir Ciod Tiw.— (Warnes 

 "Ancient Dorset," p. 87.) Teute, Toute, Tiw, were synonynious witli 

 the Greek Zeus, the Konian Jupiter. — (Max Midler, " Lectures on 

 Language," 2nd series.) Toot-hill is found ai)plie(l to any lieight of 

 extensive observation.— (As in Sir John Maundeville's Travels.) 



t Robert Lovell, iij years sexton. 



