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thought that such a work might be gradually done; that we might 
first get a finished design of the whole of the work, and carry it out 
by degrees—we should then I think have a perfect example of a 
Church, representing the earliest features in detail possessed by a 
Christian Church in Europe, and were this work accomplished, the 
County of Wilts, and its old County Town would possess a thorough 
distinction, and we might hope that the members of the Wiltshire 
Archxological Society and all true lovers of ecclesiastical architecture 
- and art, would pay us frequent visits, for our magnificent Church 
would then be a finished gem, complete in its decoration as well as 
in its proportions and architecture. 
Aotes on x Hong Barrow on Oldbury Mill. 
ARLY in the year 1864 a paragraph in one of the local 
papers stated that some skeletons had been found on 
Oldbury Hill. On visiting the spot it appeared that in digging for 
chalk for the purpose of making whiting, the workmen had trenched 
on a barrow. It is situated on the top of an elevated knoll forming 
a spur on the W.N.W. side of the obelisk. It isin length 60 feet, 
in breadth 26 feet, and about 3 feet high. The opening made by 
the labourers was on the S.E. They found three skeletons lying 
with the heads towards the east, in a large shallow grave sur- 
rounded by small blocks of sarsen stone. As far as I could ascertain 
nothing had been found with the bones. In the earth with which 
the grave had been filled up was an abundance of rude poulery and 
flint-flakes. 
Although none of the bones had been burned, there was a con- 
siderable quantity of charcoal and wood-ashes towards the bottom of 
the cavity, particularly on the north side. Many of the flint-flakes 
were burnt, but only one was found which showed traces of 
having been subjected to any manipulation beyond the original 
flaking. The whole of the barrow had been much disturbed by the 
workmen, and many of the bones had been carried away by people 
