XVI. IN MEMORIAM. 



sure and certain hope of the endless Eastertide on high. He lies 

 in Woking Cemetery, and it is a fitting monument that marks the 

 grave. He himself chose the spot, and caused to he placed there a 

 massive, unhewn, lichen-covered Serpentine stone from the Lizard. 

 Round this rock gravestone is raised a green hank, the two recalling 

 the menhirs and valla, which were his study for a lifetime. 



In 1847 Mr. WARNE married Miss Anne Holland, daughter of 

 Mr. J. Holland, of Clapham Common. She died in 1859, and her 

 loss was keenly felt to the last by her hushand. 



Mr. WARNE dearly loved his native Dorset (as we have said), 

 and in early life began to be deeply interested in the then little 

 studied archaeology of the county. Both at Pokeswell and at 

 Milbourne St. Andrews he spent much time in exploring Keltic, 

 Roman, and Saxon antiquities of various kinds. In the neighbour- 

 hood of those two places, and in several other parts of Dorset, he 

 opened many barrows, as his fine book on the subject records. It 

 is in connection with this kind of antiquity, and with camps and 

 trackways, that he is best known as an archaeologist in Dorset. 



FROM A BARROW AT WINTERBORNE STEEPLETON. 

 (This axe is now in the Dorset County Museum.) 



But his interest in the past by no means stopped there. His 

 fireside talk with his chosen friends was often of Dorset folk-lore 

 and folk-speech of Dorset churches, old houses, and old market- 

 places of Dorset manners and customs of long ago. Again, Mr. 

 WARNE was a numismatist to an extent for which some of us in 

 Dorset hardly gave him credit enough, I think. True it is that his 

 treatise in " Ancient Dorset" on the early mediaeval mints of the 



