196 The New Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



CHAPTER XVII, 



THE BARROWS. 



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The Urns in Bratley Barrow. 



IT is much to be regretted that Sir Walter Scott has left no 

 account of his excavations of various barrows in the Forest. 

 However little we may be able to determine by the evidence, 

 or however conjectural the inferences which we may draw, there 



