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FROM BARROW ON BALLARD DOWN, ISLE OP PURBEOK, DORSET.
(REGION OP THE DEBOTIIIGES, TEMP. PTOLEM^I, A.D. 120.)
Cranium from Barrow on Ballard Vown—Quarter-size.
T h e , , are numerous ban-ows of the British period in Dorsetshire; but they have not been so
extensively explored as those in the adjacent county of Wilts. The most important series yet
opened axe those by the late Mr. J. Sydenham and by Mr. Charles Warn' P.S A f • f r L
whose rese.™hes it appears that the Dorsetshire barrows are much less rich in omamenls and
weapons of the bronze period than those of Wiltshire, in which rich objects of gold, bronze
amber, and xvory are often met with. A partial explanation of this may be the existen e in thi
atter county of the Ccles of Abury and Stonehenge; so that not a few of the barrows around
hese great Drmdical fanes, particularly Stonehenge, may be those of chiefs and others brought
the distnct m question, m common with nearly the whole of the counties of Hants, Wilts and
Somerset, was occupied by the Beiges, a conquering and immigrant people from Gaul, who were
no doubt more advanced m the arts of life than the aboriginal tribes whom they subdued, and
perhaps m part dispossessed. The boundary line between the Durotriges and Belg^ seems to
have diifered very much from that between the modern counties of WHts and Dorset; and
* Archeeologia, vol. xxx. p. 327 ^ „ ,
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Gloucester, p. 74. We are glad to find that Mr. Warne pro- scnpnon.
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