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Country. And the Ornat'i^ which wereencompafled with a tinh 
of Jiones.^ fet up only for their Oemrals^ or fome other great. 
Perfom ^ 
46. And thefe they fet over the Bodies without burning them 
(as they had formerly done in their fir^l age^ which they called 
aaoifoltl, or 25?entJettjti) JEtasignea^') the manner being as Mr. 
Camdm informs us, for every Soldier remaining alive after a 
field fought , to carry his head-piece full of earth , towards 
making iht tombs of their fellovps that were ilain^, XgucVJTgso 1^ cwjtxcc, 
fundentestumulum^ after the manner of thtGreeks^ 
A^j. But the Romans here in Britan^ having little reafon to ex- 
peft more favor then they found in Germany ; whenever any Con- 
ful^ or eminent Warrior dyed in fuch an Expedition^ firft burned 
them on the level near the via firata^ or militark ; by which 
means having deprived their exafperated Enemies of all hope of 
being able to abufe the dead bodies \ they more-over endeavored 
to prevent the very fcattering their ajhes in haft, the whole Army 
caftingon them pure graffy turfs ^ cut from the furface of the 
ground, which probably indeed may be the very reafon (as the 
learned and ingenious Mr. Dugdale ^ gueffes) why there appears 
not any hoUownefs whence the earth was taken that raifed thefe 
Tumuli. 
48. Whereof here in Oxford -J/jire I have met with two kinds ; 
one placed, as above, on the Proetorian ways ; and the other fort 
not fo, yet both commonly called Burrows^ alias Barrows^ from 
the Saxon Beop^, colli^^ acervu^^ whence our word to bury Hence 
z\(o the raijed banksj made for Conies to hide themfelves, fays 
Sir Henry Spelman^ were alfo called Berries ^ Of the firft fort is 
the hillock in the Parifh of Fritmll-, called Ploughly-bill^ ftand- 
ingjuft within Oxford-Jhire on the Portway^ and (which isfom- 
what more then ordinary) giving name to the Hundred wherein it 
ftands. 
49. And there is another on the Weft fide of that branch of 
Akmanfi re e t thzt comes out of Wood/Iock^:\Tk^ clofe by the Ri- 
vulet over which that way paffes ; but the moft eminent on Al^e^ 
manfireet^ \sth2it they c^WAJiall Bar rovp^ ftanding high and lofty, 
which I conceive might be the Sepulcher of fome confiderable/er- 
« Ihidtmlib.i.cap.6. ^ Ibidem cap.-]. 8 Vid.Camd.Britan.mCom. Wilt. Mr. Dugdale^ knn^ 
quxties W'ar'ivhk^fhire-, in K!iight/ozi} Hundred. * Fid. Gu/ieL Someri, Difimar. Saxonico-Latim-Angl, 
in verba. ^ Vid. spelmanni GloJJ'arium m vcrLo Bergmn. 
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