MY GARDEN. 



the Roman roads, which I have copied (fig. 10), marks it as known 

 from Chichester to Dorking, and supposititiously thence to Streat- 



ham. We may assume that its posi- 

 tion at Beddington is now unknown, 

 and that any attempt to locate it 

 is merely a matter of conjecture. I 

 have visited Woodcote Farm, which 

 now belongs to J. P. Gassiot, Esq., 

 V.P.R.S., and there is evidently a ridge 

 running from Walton across his farm 

 to Beddington, which would be conve- 

 nient for a road ; but, at this moment, 

 there are no traces of a road, nor did 

 the old people remember that, in late 

 years, any traces of Roman antiquities had been found on that 



estate. 



" The very generations of the dead 



Are swept away, and tomb inherits tomb, 

 Until the memory of an age is fled, 

 And, buried, sinks beneath its offspring's doom." BYRON. 



FIG. 10. 



BEDDINGTON IN THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD. 



The proofs of Anglo-Saxon occupancy of Beddington recently 

 received confirmation as conclusive as that afforded 

 of Roman occupancy ; for, on the irrigation grounds, 

 Mr. Addy discovered in the earth over a raised 

 plot of ground (plate 3), about five hundred yards 

 from the Roman house, a number of Anglo- 

 Saxon urns and implements. Many skeletons 

 were found, the bones of which were mostly de- 

 composed, except the skull and long bones. I 

 ascertained that the bodies were buried with the 

 head towards the west. On the same piece of 

 Fic " ScaTe^' b tTa?o f cn hield ' ground, and alternating with these skeletons, a 



