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I call in evidence also the ancient cemetery at Mount Batten, 
so well investigated and described by Mr. C. Spence Bate. 1 In 
most localities undoubtedly such remains, which continue from the 
Bronze into the Iron Age, would suggest a post-Roman origin. 
The earlier culture of this region renders that conclusion here un- 
necessary. Somewhat similar graves were found in 1833 at 
Trelan, St. Keverne, 2 one of which contained a bronze mirror of 
kindred type; and all the characters are Keltic, and not Roman. 
These relics are the latest and most perfect developments of the 
vanishing Age of Bronze — rapidly vanishing, because the use of 
iron weapons throughout Northern Europe and in Britain had 
become general before the time of the Romans. 3 Instead of re- 
garding these remains as Romano-British, I hold them, therefore, to 
be the final types of an older pre-Roman civilization — not neces- 
sarily of any great antiquity, nor free from foreign influence, but 
influenced alike in origin and progress by an earlier intercourse 
with the civilized world than that of Roman date. 4 
We have no distinct record of the connection of the Romans 
with Dunmonia prior to the Itinerary of Antonine {circa 320), in 
which Isca Dunmoniorum is mentioned as the last of the Roman 
stations in the West, Moridunum intervening between it and 
Durnovaria. That Isca Dunmoniorum is Exeter I do not think 
doubtful; and although all efforts to identify Moridunum have 
failed, it must have been somewhere within the Devon confines. 5 
Durnovaria is certainly Dorchester. 
1 Archceologia, vol. xl. pp. 500-510. 
2 J. P. Rogers, Jour. B. I. Corn. xv. pp. 266-271. 
3 Pre-Hist. Times, pp. 6, 7. 
4 This was written before I had the opportunity of seeing Mr. J. Evans's 
Ancient Bronze Implements, W eapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain and 
Ireland, in which he says : " On the whole I think we may fairly conclude 
that in the Southern parts of Britain iron must have been in use not later 
than the fourth or fifth century B.C., and that by the second or third century 
B.C. the employment of bronze for cutting instruments had there practically 
ceased." It is perfectly clear that this part of England was more advanced 
in civilisation than would appear from the allusions of Csesar. 
5 The Chronicle attributed to Richard of Cirencester mentions as further 
stations Ad Durium Amnen, Tamara, Voluba, and Cenia ; but the work is a 
modern forgery, based partly upon Ptolemy. 
As to Exeter, the Exe was the only Isca properly belonging to the Dun- 
monii (the Axe was theirs but in part, and too petty to be reckoned in rival- 
