[241]This camp was probably, since coins of Claudius have been found there, occupied by Vespasian, when he conquered the Isle of Wight. A bronze celt was found here some eighty years ago, and came into the possession of Warner. Others have been discovered, in great quantities, in various parts of the Forest, two of which are engraved in _Archæologia_, vol. v., plate viii., figs. 9 and 10. Brander, too, the well-known antiquary, found others at Hinton, on the west border of the Forest (_Archæologia_, vol. v. p. 115). Mr. Drayson has also picked up two flint knives at Eyeworth, which are figured, showing both the under and upper surfaces, at p. 206. [242]As in Derbyshire all barrows are marked by the terminal low—_hlœw_, a grave, so in the Forest they seem particularized by a reference to the Old-English _lic_. Thus, near the Beaulieu barrows we find Lytton Copse and Common, and at the west end of the Forest, not far from Amberwood, meet another Latchmoor. I may notice that just outside the Forest, in Darrat’s Lane—a word which often occurs—we find a place, near some mounds, called “Brands,” equivalent to the “Brund” of Derbyshire, and having reference to the burning funeral pyre. (See Bateman’s _Ten Years’ Diggings_, Appendix, p. 290.) [243]I certainly think that these urns were fired, though imperfectly. As Mr. Bateman remarks, sun-baked specimens soon return to their original clay. See Appendix to _Ten Years’ Diggings_, p. 280. These three urns, with all the other fragments of cinerary vessels found in the Forest, I have placed in the British Museum, where they have been restored. The artist has represented them exactly as they appeared on the second day of digging. The fractures in the central urn were caused by an unlucky blow from a pick-axe. The measurements are as follows:— The north-eastern urn—Circumference at top 3 ft. ” ” bottom 1 ” 6 in. ” Total height 1 ” 4½ ” The central urn—The same. The south-western urn—Circumference at top 2 ” 9 ” ” ” bottom 1 ” 4½ ” ” Total height 1 ” 1¼ ” [244]I am inclined to think that here, as in the similar instance on Fritham Plain, the urns were put in the mound entire, and not, as is sometimes the case, in fragments. The pieces had no appearance of being burnt after the fractures had taken place, which were here simply the result of decay. See on this point Bateman’s _Ten Years’ Diggings_, pp. 191, 192, where Mr. Keller’s letter to Sir Henry Ellis on the subject is given.