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rather in casual discoveries outside than in the interior of the 

 work. A tribe, or tribes, of this people undoubtedly inhabited the 

 surrounding country. We are familiar with their Tumuli, those 

 silent witnesses of their mode of disposal of their dead. The 

 account of the excavation of a very remarkable Tumulus may be 

 seen in Mr. Warne's Celtic Tumuli of Dorset, Kb. 85, p. 53, taken 

 from the original report of the Rev. J. H. Austen, in the Journal 

 of the Arclueol. Instit., vol. 3, p. 348. This Tumulus stood about 

 one mile S.W. of Badbury. There are other tumuli, trackways, 

 and dykes evidences of Keltic occupation. In Mr. Henry 

 Durden's fine museum there is a bronze leaf-shaped sword from 

 this neighbourhood, and in the same gentleman's coin cabinet a 

 gold coin of CUNOBELIN, found in that locality. 



2. The Roman occupation is more noteworthy for affording 

 evidence of their presence. We are indebted to Aubrey, the old 

 Wiltshire antiquary, for some facts he has recorded (Note 1). He 

 says that in 1677 were found in Badlury Warren some Roman 

 coins a coin of Diocletian. Mr. Ettrick had a Roman sword 

 found in the camp about 1665. " They (the finders) used it for a 

 cheesc-toster ! " and Mr. Ettrick, of the Inner Temple, told him 

 another sword was found in the camp about 1688. Coins have 

 been found at Pamphill (Note 2), also in the Park near Abbot- 

 street (Mr. Lumsden inf.), several small vases of Roman ware 

 found in digging out a ferret in the camp (ib.) On Hems worth 

 Farm, in 1831, were discovered the foundations of several rooms, 

 in one of which I saw a beautiful representation of a dolphin 

 surrounded with a fine ornamental border, all in Mosaic work. I 

 obtained about that time from a labourer a bronze-handled large 

 knife or sword, the handle presenting a dragon's head and neck in 



NOTE 1. See Warne's Ancient Dorset, Note p. 35, and Aubrey's MSS. 

 in the Bodleian ; also Monumcnta Historica Britannica. 



NOTE 2. My informant was Mr. Lumsden, the intelligent Scotch 

 gardener at Kingston Lacy, in 1847, who accompanied myself and friend 

 in our search for traces of the Hamworthy Roman road from the Stour 

 to Badbury, with decided success. (See Ancient Dorset, p. 180, Note 

 p. 181" The Vicinal Way from Badbury to Moriconium on Poole Bay.") 



