OfOXFOXV-SHmjS. 52* 



Country. And the Ornati, which were encompaffed with a circle 

 of fiones, fee up only for their Generals, or fome other great 

 Perfons e . 



46. And thefe they fetover the Bodies without burning them 

 (as they had formerly done in their first age, which they called 

 ffiotfolt), or T&itttiiZ ti)U> ALtatignea*) the manner being as Mr. 

 Camden informs us, for every Soldier remaining alive after a 

 field fought , to carry his head-piece full of earth , towards 

 making the tombs of their fellows that were flain g , Xgo'<V)Tgj5 to oSf/**, 

 fundentes tumulum, after the manner of the Greeks. 



47. But the Romans here in Briton, having little reafon to ex- 

 pert more favor then they found in Germany ; whenever any Con- 

 ful, or eminent Warrior dyed in fuch an Expedition, firft burned 

 them on the level near the via firata, or militaris ; by which 

 means having deprived their exafperated Enemies of all hope of 

 being able to abufe the dead bodies ; they more-over endeavored 



x to prevent the very Scattering their ajbes in haft, the whole Army 

 calling on them pure grafjy turfs, cut from the furface of the 

 ground, which probably indeed may be the very reafon (as the 

 learned and ingenious Mr. Dugdale h guefles) why there appears 

 not any hollo wnefs whence the earth was taken that rai fed thefe 

 Tumuli. 



48. Whereof here in Oxford-Jhire I have met with two kinds ; 

 one placed, as above, on the Pr<etorian ways ; and the other fort 

 not fo, yet both commonly called Burrows, alias Barrows, from 

 the Saxon Beops, collis, acervut, whence our word to bury \ Hence 

 alfo the raifed banks, made for Conies to hide themfelves, fays 

 Sir Henry Sptlman, were alfo called Berries K Of the firft fort is 

 the hillock in the Parifh of Fritwell, called Ploughly-bill, {land- 

 ing juft within Oxford-Jhire on the Portway y and (which isfom- 

 what more then ordinary) giving name to the Hundred wherein it 

 ftands. 



49. And there is another on the Weft fide of that branch of 

 Ahsmanfireet that comes out of Woodftock.??itV, clofe by the Ri- 

 vulet over which that way pafles ; but the moft eminent on Ake- 

 manfireet, is that they call Aflall Barrow, ftanding high and lofty > 

 which I conceive might be the Sepulcher of fome confiderable/'er- 



e Ibidemlib. icap.6. ' ibidem cap.y. Vid. Camd. Brit an. in Com. Wilt. h Mr. Vugdale's AnrM 

 quities of IVarioick^fhire, in Knightlow Hundred. ' Vid. Gu/tel.St>mneri,Diftionar. Saxonic'o Latino Ait&l 

 in verbo. k Vid. spelmamiGloJ/arium in'verLo'Ber^ium. 



fin, 



