In compliance with your request I proceed to furnish a few memoranda of circumstances attending the opening of some barrows in the south of Dorsetshire, indicating the differences that prevail between the barrows of that part of the country and those that have been opened so numerously in the county of Kent. Those differences are so many and so distinct that it will at once be manifest that the two classes have little in common, save the principle of tumular interment; and that they are respectively the construction of a different people, and have been erected at distant eras. To this difference, however, there is one—and so far as I have been enabled to ascertain, but one—exception, in the remarkable barrow recently investigated at Iffin's Wood near Canterbury, and described by you in the first portion of the thirtieth volume of the Archæologia. The contents of this barrow are of a character precisely similar to those I am now about to describe. The construction of the barrow, the material and form of the urns, their inverted position, the irregularity of their depositure, are all in strict accordance with the peculiar features of the Dorsetshire barrows.