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Middle Ages had forestalled us, and time had obliterated all 

 their marks in opening the mound. 



From the position of the vessel at the top of the barrow, 

 there had evidently been a second interment. The remains, 

 however, are in accordance with what we might have expected. 

 The barrow is situated not far from the Romano -British 



Neck of Roman Wine Vessel. Keltic Urn, and FJint Knives. 



potteries of Sloden, and close to it run great banks, known as 

 the Row- ditch, marking, in all probability, the settlements of a 

 Romano-British population.* 



* Instances have been known where the top of a Roman cinerary urn 

 has been taken off, and replaced ; but, from the narrowness of the neck, I 

 hardly think this vessel was used for such a purpose. I give with it also 

 a late British urn found, some twenty years ago, in a barrow outside the 

 present Forest boundary, in a field known as Hilly Accombs, near Darrat's 

 Lane, which has been previously mentioned. It measures 6 inches in height, 

 and has a circumference of 1 foot 9 inches round the top, and 1 foot at the 

 base. With it was discovered another, but I have been unable to learn in 

 whose possession it now is, or what has become of the Roman glass unguent 

 bottle found in Denney Walk (see the Antiquities of the Priory of Christ- 

 church, by B. Ferrey and E. W. Brayley, p. 2, foot-note). The two flint 



