88 Notes on Barrow-diggings. 
which there is no published record, so far as I know, is said tra- 
ditionally in the parish to have produced “a small saucer.” I 
reopened it in September, 1855, and found an empty cist. It is a 
small mound in the centre of a circular enclosure which is sur- 
rounded by a fosse and vallum. This is not an unfrequent form 
of grave mound on the Wiltshire Downs, to which I shall refer later. 

8. 
Plan of Barrow, No. 4. 
Showing trenches, (T) and number and positions of interments. 
A. Primary interment. 
No. 4, was examined in 1855, and a trench was dug on the east side 
towards the centre. Ata depth of seven feet, and in the centre of 
the mound, in a cist dug out of the chalk, was a skeleton on its 
right side, with the legs drawn up, lying N.W. and S.E., the head . 
being in the direction of the former point. The individual must 
have been about 5 feet 10 inches in height, as ascertained from the 
length of the skeleton as it lay. The bones were in excellent 
preservation, and although they were carefully uncovered, no right 
arm, and no hands were found. There was no jar or relic of any 
kind, but only a small fragment of coarse pottery, rudely marked, 
near the head. When the body was interred, it appears te have 

