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against their invaders. Nearer Lymington, too, stands Buck- 

 land Rings,* a Roman camp, with its south and north sides 

 still nearly perfect, to which, perhaps, Natan-Leod fell back 

 from Calshot. 



All this, however, must be accepted as mere conjecture. 

 A more critical examination of these barrows is still wanting. 



Close to them, however, lies Latchmoor or Lichmoor Pond, 

 the moor of corpses, a name which we meet again a little to the 

 westward in Latchmoor Water, which flows by Ashley Common. 

 The words are noticeable, and in connection with Darrat's 

 (Dane-rout) stream, which is also not far distant may point 

 to a very different invasion. f 



And now we will pass to the barrows which I have opened. 

 The first are situated on Bratley Plain, as the name shows, a 

 wide heath, marked only by a few hollies and the undulations of 

 the scattered mounds. The largest barrow lies close to the sixth 



* This camp was probably, since coins of Claudius have been found there, 

 occupied by Vespasian, when he conquered the Isle of Wight. A bron'^e 

 celt was found here some eighty years ago, and came into the possession 

 of AVarner Others have been discovered, in great quantities, in various 

 parts of the Forest, two of which are engraved in An-ha-o/oqia, vol. v., 

 plate viii., figs. 9 and 10. Brander, too, the well-known antiquary, found 

 others at Ilinton, on the west border of the Forest (Archceulogia, vol. v. 

 p. 115). Mr. Drayson has also picked up two flint knives at Eycworth, 

 which are figured, showing both the under and upper surfaces, at p. '206. 



t As in Derbyshire all barrows are marked by the terminal low — Jilceiv, 

 a grave, so in the Forest they seem particularized by a reference to the 

 Old-English Iw. Ihus, near the Beaulieu barrows we find Lytton Copse 

 and Common, and at the west end of the P"'orest, not far from Amber- 

 wood, meet another Tiatcliiuoor. I may notice that just outside the Forest, 

 in Darrat's Lane — a Avord which often occurs — we find a place, near some 

 mounds, called " Brands," equivalent to the " Brund " of Derbyshire, and 

 having reference to the burning funeral p}re. (See Bateman's Ten Years 

 Diggings, Appendix, p. 2U0) • 



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