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been walled about and covered over with large flints, and then the 
vegetable mould was heaped up, and constituted the original grave~- 
mound with a diameter of about 70 feet. At subsequent periods 
other interments followed, producing an enlargement of the bar- 
row; the present diameter being about 96 feet. It was not until 
the year 1861 that a further examination of this mound was made 
by the Rector of North Tidworth and myself. The experience we 
had derived in the examination of other barrows having led to 
discoveries of an interesting nature, we resolved to apply the pro- 
cess to this barrow. It may be as well to state here the mode 
which was adopted by us. We first dug a wide trench from the 
south point to the centre, and in some cases beyond the centre, and 
next we carried trenches east and west from the south side, at a 
few feet from the base of the mound. The advantages gained by 
this method were these. It gave us a section of the barrow, a 
matter of considerable importance; it enabled us to meet with the 
original interment, when, as in many cases, it was eccentric; and 
_ it brought to light a series of interments in positions where they 
have not been commonly observed in Wilts. In addition to this, 
__ it revealed a certain degree of orientation in these secondary inter- 
; ments, in relation to the primary one, which was quite constant. 
_ After digging for a distance of about 13 feet from a point a little 
_ to the west of south in a direction eastwards, at a few feet from the 
base of the mound, meeting occasionally with fragments of pottery 
and a portion of a grinding trough, we found an interment of burnt 
bones at the spot marked 1. At 2, we came to a large urn inverted, 
_ (plate iii. fig. 1) containing the burnt bones ofalarge man.! The urn 
__ was placed on a mass of pounded chalk, and a dry walling of large 
{ flints was built round it to serve as a protection. The bottom of 
4 this vessel was about one foot below the surface. Not far from it, 
at 5, was a considerable quantity of burnt bones. At 7, was an 
urn smaller than that at 2, also containing burnt bones, on its 
side, with the mouth pointing up the mound, within three inches 
! The ornamentation on this urn consists of a projecting band of clay, in which 
circular depressions have been made with the top of the finger; the cast of the 
nail is seen in some of them. Similar markings have lately been observed on 
_ some other Wiltshire urns. (Eds. ] 

