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Liphook (one apart from the others, to the south-west ; the 

 other two close together) ; and one, remote from all the rest, 

 is on the summit ridge of Weaver's Down, close to the ex- 

 treme southern boundary of Selborne parish. The positions of 

 all these tumuli are marked on the map. Some of them ap- 

 pear to have been much, and all, or almost all of them, more 

 or less disturbed : with what results I have no information, 

 except what I have obtained from Mr. Prettejohn, who was 

 present at the opening of five of them in 1829. He states that 

 Mrs. Barlow, a lady then residing at Midhurst, by the permission 

 of the proper authorities, caused that examination to be made. 

 The first four mounds appeared to have been previously explored ; 

 and nothing was found in them, except pieces of charcoal, ashes, 

 calcined bones, and (in one of them within the Brimstone 

 Lodge inclosure) some small fragments of an iirn, " old, rotten, 

 decayed, crookey," and seeming to have been sun-dried, and not 

 regularly burnt in a potter's kiln. In the fifth (being the 

 smaller of two upon " Cold-down Hill, not far from Hogmoor 

 Pond and Binn's Pond"), an urn was found, placed on the original 

 level of the ground, covered by a flat stone, and containing (as 

 I infer), calcined human bones or ashes. Mr. Prettejohn de- 

 scribes it as " of a bilged shape, something between a pitcher 

 and a flower-pot;" about eleven or twelve inches high, and 

 capable of containing two or three quarts. It was " in appear- 

 ance, weak ; " but it was, with care, sent off " by two men to 

 Midhurst," (a distance of twelve miles) "carrying it on a sling 

 on a pole." Mrs. Barlow supposed it to be not only a relic of 

 much interest and value, but of antiquity far greater than 

 Roman-British times : but a friend, learned in these subjects, 

 whom I have consulted, is led, by the description given, to 

 doubt the soundness of that opinion. No coins were found in 

 any of the tumuli thus examined. 



With respect to earlier explorations, all that I can gather, 

 through the recollections of old inhabitants, is, that some of the 

 tumuli on the Forest were opened by a gentleman named Butler, 

 certainly not less than sixty years ago. 1 have myself lately 

 opened the largest of those not covered by plantations on my 

 own property ; nothing, however, was found there, except traces 



