THE HAMPSHIRE ANTIQUARY &* NATURALIST. 



105 



ENGLAND. 



ist inn. and inn. total. 



D. of Dorsett, b Brett o c Tankerville 5 5 



Lumpy, b Brett i 2 3 



Wood, b Brett i b Nyren i 2 



White, c Veck 8 run out 10 18 



Miller, c Small 27 b Brett 23 50 



Minshall 60 bTaylor 12 72 



Bowra, b Brett 2 c Taylor 4 6 



Bullin, c Lord Tankerville... 13 b Nyren 2 15 



Brooker, c Brett 8 b Brett 210 



Yalden, c Small 6 c Nyren 8 14 



Pattenden, b Brett 38 c Suter 038 



Bies 2 Bies o 2 



1 66 69 235 



The match was won by Hampshire in one innings, by a 

 majority of 168. Aylward, on the side ot Hants, went in at 

 five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and was not out till 

 after three on Friday ! 



THE HAMPSHIRE INDEPENDENT, August 23, 1890. 



HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB. 



MEETING AT BEAULIEU. 



There was a very large attendance of members on 

 Wednesday for the excursion to Beaulieu. Favoured 

 with fine weather the excursion doubtless owed 

 some of its popularity especially among the 

 ladies to the fact that it was a brake drive, the walk- 

 ing being thus reduced to a minimum. When heads 

 were counted at Hythe pier gate the number totaled 

 up to 82, and others joined the party later on. 

 Tuesday was a soaking wet day, but on Wednesday 

 the club experienced its usual good fortune, and there 

 was nothing worse during the day than an occasional 

 threatening cloud. At Hythe the brakes provided 

 were rapidly filled and a start was made for Beaulieu. 

 About half way across the heath, a short distance to 

 the west of the road, is a group of tumuli, where the 

 first stoppage was made. At first it looked as if these 

 tumuli could not be approached, as the ground was 

 so marshy from the previous day's rain ; but Mr. 

 Shore successfully pioneered a way over dry ground 

 and throughout the day kept the large party well 

 together and up to time during the numerous 

 stoppages. The tumuli consist of one long barrow 

 between two ring barrows, lying almost north and 

 south. Of these, as Mr. Shore said, the long barrow 

 is the oldest and is a relic of very ancient times. The 

 round barrows, which are of a good shape with 

 the circular hollow or moat round them, would 

 if opened doubtless show remains of cremation, with 

 flints and pebbles, and may probably be associated 

 with the Belgae of pre-Roman or Roman times. 

 These people after burning their dead buried the 

 ashes in urns inverted on a bed of flints and then 

 covered them with these earth mounds. There 

 is much wisdom in Mr. Shore's sugges- 



tion that these barrows on the Crown 

 property should be scheduled under the 

 Ancient Monuments Act, and so saved from the risk 

 of destruction which befell those on Holbury 

 Purlieu a little while ago. A little to the south, on 

 the opposite side of the road, the remains of a 

 Romano-British road were visited. This is a raised 

 trackway across the marshy heath and that the 

 heath is marshy was shown by the presence of the 

 round leaf sundew, Drosera rotundifolia extending 

 in an east and west direction towards another 

 Roman road, pointed out to the eastward, marked on 

 the new one inch Ordnance map. This second road 

 was at one time an important thoroughfare leading 

 to Lepe, whence a short water passage led to a 

 corresponding road in the Isle of Wight. The road 

 on which the party was assembled led probably from 

 Hythe across Hertford Heath (as it is called on the 

 map, though Mr. Shore suggested that it was Har- 

 ford or old ford) to a ford over the Beaulieu or Exe 

 River. It was not, Mr. W. Dale suggested, a Roman 

 road, but constructed by the British in probably 

 Roman times. 



Just after entering the Beaulieu manor a halt was 

 made to visit the monks' well, lying in the wood just 

 off the road. Here the party was met by Lord 

 Montagu, who courteously pointed out some of the 

 antiquarian features on his property and gave some 

 interesting information about them. The well, which 

 was made by the old monks to supply the abbey and 

 fish ponds with water, is a solidly built dome-shaped 

 structure covering a basin into which the water rises 

 from the ground. Into this one enthusiastic young 

 lady, who wanted to be first in exploring its dark 

 recesses, unexpectedly precipitated herself ; but 

 as the water was not more than two feet 

 deep the ill result was nothing worse 

 than a cold bath. When Lord Montagu first 

 came into possession of the property the well was 

 filled up, and he has done good service in cleaning it 

 out and exposing the well-made dome and basin. It 

 is an instance of the solidity of the structure that 

 when the men were excavating, a settlement of the 

 ground caused the dome to tilt slightly without any 

 breakage. Near by is a modern reservoir constructed 

 by the uncle of the present Lord Montagu about 60 

 years ago for the water supply of the village ; and the 

 President (Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S.) congratulated 

 his lordship on the excellent water supply, which in 

 the New Forest generally is not very satisfactory. 

 These springs, he said, find their origin in the gravels 

 of the heath and emerge with the outcrop of the 

 underlying clay. 



The central point of the day's meeting was Beau- 

 lieu Abbey. This, like Netley, Quarr, in the Isle of 

 Wight, Tintern, Fountains, &c. , belonged to the 

 Cistercian order. It was founded by King John in 

 1204, and erected at an early period of the history of 

 the Cistercians in this country, being the mother 

 abbey to Netley. Its history it has some notable 



