ON THE ALLUVIUM OF THE BEDFORD LEVEL. 
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or the honoured warrior. It appears, that they are nuraerous in 
the vicinity of Boston^ for Dr. Stiikely_, speaking of that neigh- 
bourhood says, " Here I have not been able to meet with any 
remains of the ancient British, except it be the the great quan- 
tity of tumuli or barrows in all these parts, scarce a parish mth- 
out one or more of them. They are generally of a considerable 
bulk much too large for Romans ; nor has anything Homan been 
discovered in cutting them through, though a few years ago two 
or three were dug quite away near Boston, and another at Framp- 
ton, to make brick of or mend the highways. I guess these 
were the high places of worship amongst our Cambrian predeces- 
sors, purposely cast up, because there are no natural hills in these 
parts; and we know antiquity affected places of elevation for 
religious rites. No doubt some are places of sepulture, especi- 
ally such as are very frequent upon the edges of the high coun- 
try all around, looking down upon the Fens.'''' Fearing that 
this communication will extend to an inconvenient length, I beg 
leave to refer the readers to the volumes of the Gentleman's 
Magazine for notices of coins and other relics of the olden time 
discovered within the field of my inquirv\ 1 have ascertained 
that the Archaeological Transactions do not contain any matters 
within the scope of my present research. The follo'^ing I ex- 
tract from Dugdale, " there have been divers urns digged up of 
late years, in the cutting of some drains through the adjacent 
fens : one on the north side of Wisbeach, another about Peakirk. 
So likewise in a place called Ford Ea (near Soham within the 
Isle of Ely), wherein were found burnt bone, ashes and coals ; 
all which are undoubted testimonies that some of their colonies 
(Roman) had residence in these parts.''' — p. 174. 
Of the more modern indications of the progressing ci'S'iliza- 
tion, and industry of man, I find mentioned by Dugdale, that 
in the moors at Phurne (Lincolnshire), near five feet in depth, 
was found a ladder of fir, of a large substance, with about forty 
staves, which were thirty-three inches asunder (?), but so rotten 
