IN MEMORIAM. XIX. 



Such, roughly set down, were the archaeological studies, such 

 the literary works, of a man of whom old Dorset may well be 

 proud. 



As I said, I cannot venture on any formal critique, yet I would 

 say a word or so on one or two points. I need but to name Mr. 

 WARNE'S great service to Dorset Archaeology in his book on our 

 Barrows, with its careful and most instructive sections, showing 

 the successive burials. Then I would remind you of what seem to 

 me his two great strokes in archaeological discovery. In the first 

 place look at Maiden Castle. I do not here refer to Mr. WARNE'S 

 most able, but conjectural, and therefore controvertible, tracing of 

 Vespasian's first campaign, as connected with Maiden Castle. 

 But I call it a great discovery that Mr. WARNE detected, what no 

 one had seen before, that the south side of that giant fastness is 

 unfinished. When first I read this, some years ago, I would not 

 believe it. But each time that I have since looked at those 

 shallow southern ditches, with the small vallam on their inner 

 edge, and the wide platform behind, it has seemed more clear to 

 me that he was right. Secondly, I would remind you, but it nmst 

 be only in a word, of his finding the site of the lost Ibernio of the 

 Ravenna Itinerary. One of Sir R. C. Hoare's great hits was the 

 discovery of Vindogladia on Gussage Down. Mr. WARNE'S quick 

 eye, years after, saw in a ploughed field, on what had been 

 Kingston Down, certain differences of hue in the soil. Not much 

 to catch any common sight, but it was enough for Mr. WARNE. 

 From careful study of Antonine's Itinerary he had become sure 

 that a station must have been left out therein between Vindogladia 

 and Durnovaria. In the Ravenna Itinerary he found Ibernio 

 inserted. Kingston Down was, roughly, half-way, and here in the 

 varied colour of the Kingston ploughed field he thought he saw 

 signs 'of the forgotten Roman Station. On examining the dark 

 patches of soil he found everything to confirm his idea. After- 

 wards, being unable to renew his personal researches there, he got 

 his friend Mr. Shipp to explore the field. Many relics were found, 

 which abundantly proved that a Roman station had existed there. 



