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A Description of three Barrows, Opened 



A barrow opened by tbe Rev. W. C. Lukis, of Collingbourne/ 

 was constructed on the same general plan, though on a much smaller 

 scale, and with the further difference that flints were used instead of 

 sarsen stones (flint being very abundant, and sarsens rare in that 

 neighbourhood) ; and the body in the primary interment was cre- 

 mated, instead of being unburnt as at Rockley. 



The urns also in the secondary interment were inverted, while 

 those at Rockley were found in an upright position. 



The small round barrow (No. M. 3 c, on the Rev. A. C. Smith's 

 map) was opened by a trench cut in the direction of north-east to 

 south-west. It was composed simply of the surface soil of the down. 

 About 6 feet to the north of the centre the fragments of a small 

 drinking- cup were found, but unaccompanied by any bones or other 

 interment. On digging to the original level of the downs, a cist, 

 cut in the chalk, was found, two-and-a-half feet in diameter, and 

 ten inches deep. It contained ashes and human bones very much 

 burnt, but no pottery or any other remains. 



A larger barrow (No. IM. 3 a.. Rev. A. C. Smith's map) was opened 

 by a trench cut as in No. M. 3 c. About the centre of the barrow. 



Leaf -shaped Arrow-head, found in a Barrow at Ogboum. 



but just under the turf, a human skeleton was found, the bones of 

 which were very much broken and disturbed by some previous opening, 

 either by shepherds or by some more scientific observers ; if by the 

 latter they certainly missed a beautiful leaf-shaped arrow-head — one 



* See Wiltshire Magazine, vol. x., pp. 102-3. 



