146 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



shapes and sizes, flat squares, long" squares, round oblong, little and 

 great. Likewise many of earth, of different shapes, magnitude and 

 colour, some little and white, many larg'e and flattish like a button, 

 others like a pully. But all had holes to run a string thro^, either 

 thro^ their diameter or sides. Many of the button sort seem to 

 have been covered with metal, there being a rim worked in them 

 wherein to turn the edge of the covering. One of these was covered 

 with a thin film of pure gold. These were the young lady's orna- 

 ments, and had all undergone the fire ; so that what would easily 

 consume fell to pieces as soon as handled. Much of the amber 

 burnt half thro^. This person was a heroin, for we found the head 

 of her javelin in brass. At bottom are two holes for the pins that 

 fastened it the staff'. Besides there was a sharp bodkin, round at 

 one end, square at the other, where it went into a handle. [These 

 ornaments are engraved in Stukeley's Stonehenge, plate xxxii.] 

 Then we opM the next barrow to it enclosed in the same 

 ditch, which we supposed the husband or father of this lady. 

 At fourteen inches deep, the mould being mixed with chalk, 

 we came to the intire skeleton of a man. The skull and all 

 the bones exceedingly rotten and perish^ through length of 

 time.'' 



On this interesting account of one of the few barrow-openings 

 at Stonehenge before the time of Cunnington and Hoare, the 

 latter says : " Not dissuaded by the external ajipearanees, and 

 convinced by experience that all interments found near the 

 surface were subsequent deposits, Mr. Cunnington, in 1808, ex- 

 plored the second tumulus, by making a section rather to the south 

 of the centre, when at the depth of six feet, he came to the floor of the 

 barrow, which was covered with ashes ; and on digging still further 

 to the south he found a fine oblong cist, about eighteen inches deep, 

 fifteen inches wide, and two feet long, and in it a complete inter- 

 ment of burnt bones, and with them six beads apparently of horn, 

 four of which were perforated; the other two were circular, and 

 rather flat, but all appeared as thought they had been burned. Dr. 

 Stukeley made the same observation respecting the articles found in 

 the other barrow ; but he must have been mistaken as to the amber. 



