196 The Nciv Forest : lis History and its Scenery. 



CHAPTER XYII. 



THE BARROWS 



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The Urns m Bratley Barrox. 



It is much to be regretted that Sir Walter Scctt has left no 

 account of his excavations of various barrows in the Forest. 

 However little we may be able to determine by the evidence, 

 or however conjectural the inferences which we may draw, there 



