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existing, made by the late Mr. Hatcher, are with other papers which 

 belonged to that gentleman, in the possession of Mr. Stevens, one 

 of the Secretaries of the Blackmore Museum, to whose kindness and 

 courtesy I am indebted for the copies of them now laid before this 

 meeting. The drawings show the pavements to have been of con- 

 siderable beauty. I am not without hope that a future examination 

 of the site, a portion of which is included within the limits of a 

 meadow in my own occupation, may result in additional discoveries. 



And now I pass on to the more immediate subject of this paper. 

 About a mile beyond West Dean, between the hamlets of East Dean 

 and Lockerley, in the county of Hants, a little to the north of the 

 railway, there is a wooded eminence known as " Holbury Copse," and 

 corresponding with it a similar one further on, called " Cadbury." 

 Both of these names are indicative of ancient encampments. The 

 latter derived from the Keltic "cat" or "cad," praelium, and 

 " bury," a place of defence, is not an uncommon designation of hill 

 fortresses, and occurs in Gloucestershire, Somersetshire, and Devon- 

 shire, as well as here in Hampshire. The former I suppose may be 

 compounded of the Saxon " hoi," a hollow, or " holt," a wooded 

 eminence, and " bury," as before ; this last, at all events, would be 

 eminently descriptive of the position of the place. Two sides of a 

 large rectangular entrenchment may be traced amongst the trees 

 upon the highest ground in Holbury Copse, the corresponding ones 

 having been obliterated by repeated removals of gravel and sand. 

 At the north-east angle of this entrenchment jnv late discoveries 

 were made, and were the result, as is usua UjOSMl^Qr Occident. 

 A gamekeeper digging out a ferret from a rabbit-hole, had occasion 

 to penetrate the bed of sand of which the ridge is composed, to a 

 depth of three feet or more, and in so doing threw out numerous 

 sherds of pottery. When these were brought to me, I saw at once 

 that they were Roman, and having asked and obtained permission 

 from Sir Francis H. Goldsmid, Bart., M.P., the owner of the 

 property, to examine the nature of the deposit, fortified by the 

 presence of the Rev. Edmund Kell, F.S.A., of Southampton, 

 L. O. Fox, Esq., M.D., of Broughton, and the Rev. William Eyre, 

 I made a careful excavation, in which, employing four labourers, I 



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