By William Long, Esq. 147 



for we know that fire would entirely consume it.^ Stukeley also 

 opened what he calls a Druid barrow (? No. 169), "next to 

 bush barrow, westward of it." He found " a squarish hole three- 

 and-a-half feet long, and nearly two broad in the centre of the 

 tumulus. In it were burnt bones." He opened besides " another 

 of these of like dimensions, next to that Lord Pembroke opened, 

 south of Stonehenge. He found a burnt body in a hole in the chalk 

 as before." He finishes his account as follows : " In some other 

 barrows I openM, were found large burnt bones of horses and dogs, 

 along with human. Also of other animals, as seemed : of fowl, 

 hares, boars, deer, goats, and the like. And in a great and very 

 flat old fashion'd barrow, west from Stonehenge, among such matters, 

 I found bits of red and blue marble, chippings of the stones of the 

 temple, so that probably the interr^'d was one of the builders. . . • 

 This is the sum of what is most material, that fell within my ob- 

 servation, relating to the barrows about Stonehenge." 



In Stukeley's Common Place Book is the following : " Forty -five 

 barrows in sight of Stonehenge. A° 1666, one of the 7 barrows 

 being digged up they found coals, goats^ horns and stags horns. 

 [In margin, ' Remains of sacrifice at the Briton's burial.'] Near to 

 the penning is Normanton Ditch, here in ploughing was found A'^ 

 1635, very good pewter, sold for £5." ^ (This Stukeley must have 

 learnt from the " Monumenta Britannioa.") 



No less than 300 barrows are laid down on Sir R. C. Hoare's map 

 of " Stonehenge and its environs," within an area of no more than 

 twelve square miles. " It can scarcely be doubted that those in- 

 terred under tumuli near this sacred place (locus consecratasj were 

 the distinguished dead^ brought probably from all parts of the 



' Ancient Wilts, i., 162. 



2 Wilts Mag., xi., 342. 

 * The question naturally arises . " If these grave-raounds contain the ' corpora 

 clarorum virorum,' where are the graves of the innumerable members of the 

 • ignobile vulgus ? ' " They must have been buried where they died. If the 

 bodies were burnt, the ashes un-cisted and un-urned, would soon become ming- 

 led with the surrounding earth; if buried entire, the bodies would be laid but 

 a few inches below the surface, and the percolating rain of centuries would 

 generally cause the bones to crumble and decay, tiome years ago the writer 



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