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trenchments, tumuli, and graves of the Ancient British. 

 All round the great plain of Salisbury were the remains 

 of these ancient people ; and in the centre of the plain 

 was Stonehenge, their great sacrificial temple. On the 

 Downs were camps and entrenchments. At Chatties 

 Doun, near Charborough, there were tumuli to the 

 right and left. At Whitchurch, an old camp was seen 

 on the side of a hill, and two barrows were observed 

 close to the road. There were short barrows and long 

 barrows the former being the more ancient raised 

 over the dead, long before the invasion of the Eomans. 



The party of travellers passed on to Dorchester a 

 station of the Eomans, as its name indicates. But 

 before the Eornan invasion the place seems to have 

 been of importance. There is a round Amphitheatre 

 near the town, capable of containing some twelve 

 thousand spectators. Some think it to be Eoman, but 

 others suppose it to be Ancient British, as it closely 

 resembles the British " rounds." But the most remark- 

 able monument of the Ancient British is Maiden Castle, 

 a few miles south-west of Dorchester, one of the finest 

 and largest old camps in England. The outworks enclose 

 an area of forty -four acres, and three lofty earthen 

 ramparts surround it on the south. At Bridport, on 

 the west, says Wedgwood, " every hill seems to have its 

 camp." The barrows were innumerable. At Slatt " the 

 first rock stone was seen." 



The travellers passed through Stapleton, where there 

 were "plenty of orchards," Charmouth, Axminster, 



