20 liADBURV RINGS. 



fine relief. It was said to have been found in hedging near 

 Badbury. This interesting relic I presented to the late Mr. Sturt, 

 of Crichel. 



But all these treasures would be eclipsed if the golden coffin 

 which the villagers believe is buried somewhere between Badbury 

 and Shapwick were to be discovered ! What a prize for the 

 Dorset Museum ! 



3. The Saxon occupation need not detain us long, being well 

 known as a historical incident, recorded in the Anglo-Saxon 

 Chronicle, sub- Anno 901. This was probably of short duration, 

 but it has left a memorial which will endure so long as the name 

 of BADBURY lasts and the great earthwork itself continues to be 

 one of the landmarks of our dear old county. 



ADDENDA. 



Ee vising what I have written, it occurs me that I have not been 

 sufficiently explicit in my allusions to the Roman Way that lies 

 between Poole Bay and the Via Iceniana, near Badbury. From 

 Hamworthy, its point of departure, it has been known, probably 

 from time immemorial, running across Lytchett Heath to Cogdean 

 as a raised road or causeway, used in parts as a parish road ; but 

 from Cogdean, and across the meadows and river Stour to its 

 northern terminus, its course seems to have been unknown, or at 

 all events undescribed. Taylor's Map of Dorset (1765) and other 

 old Maps show a line of Roman road that left the Ackling Dyke 

 at or near More Crichel, on the S.E. of Mr. Sturt's Park, and ran 

 straight by Pamphill to the Stour, and onwards to Cogdean near 

 Merley. I venture to assert that, strangely enough, no one has 

 ever made this line a matter of practical demonstration. It there- 

 fore seemed desirable that some enquiry should be made, and with 

 this object in view I took upon myself the responsibility of making 

 that enquiry in the year 1847 ; but the result first appeared in Mr. 

 Warne's Ancient Dorset (p. 180) " On the Vicinal Way from 

 Badbury to Moriconium* on Poole Bay" 1872). 

 NOTE,* Baxter. 



