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By the Rev. W. C. Lukis. 99 
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vallum. *An wnoccupied enclosure of this kind may be seen between 
North Tidworth and Amesbury. On the first death occurring, a 
cist was dug in the chalk, generally in the centre of the enclosed 
_ area, and a mound was raised over the mortal remains, sometimes 
_ of large and sometimes of small dimensions. No. 15 of the 
Collingbourne group is an example of the latter, and other examples 
exist on Wilsford Down where are four, and two on Lake Down, 
amidst groups of barrows of all sizes. It is to be noted however 
that the first interment occupied sometimes a position at some 
distance from the centre. There is an instance of this on the 
Amesbury Downs, where a small mound is so situated within a 
fossed enclosure. On a second death occurring in the family, the 
remains were placed on one side of the first grave, and a second 
small mound erected. An instance of this may be seen in No. 18, 
one of a group on the Everley Down, a few hundred yards from 
the group I have been describing. Three other examples may be 
seen in the group of barrows near Woodyates in the extreme south 
of the county. On the occasion of another death, the remains 
were placed either on the summit, as in barrows Nos. 8 and 10 at 
Collingbourne,! or on one side of the central mound, (on Wilsford 
Down three small mounds occupy the area, and a similar example 
is met with near Woodyates,)* and earth heaped over the whole. 
In course of time, by this process, the mound filled the greater 
part of the entire area, and attained a considerable elevation. 
A construction, bearing upon this theory, was observed by the 
late Mr. Thomas Bateman in a barrow, called “Gib hill,” upon 
Middleton Moor, in Derbyshire, where the area was found to con- 
tain four small mounds, over the whole of which a large mound, 
fifteen feet high, had been subsequently raised, in which was a 
stone cist. In the four mounds, it is true, no deposit of human 
remains was found when examined in 1848; the only objects then 
met with being flint chippings, charcoal, animal bones and 

















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. 1Thus numbered in the plan given in “ Ancient Wiltshire,” by Sir 
 R. C. Hoare. 
On Winterbourne Stoke Down, I believe, an instance occurs of four little 
_ mounds within the fosse, 
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