] 66 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



C. Hoare is no doubt correct in saying they are much more frequently- 

 found inverted. The urns of larger size are indeed almost always in 

 this position. Sometimes the urn had been lined with leaves of fern 

 or bracken [Pteris aqiiillna') before the burnt bones were placed in 

 it. More often apparently, at least in Wiltshire, they were inclosed 

 in linen cloth, of which fabric Sir R. C. Hoare found traces in at 

 least six instances. Sometimes the mouth of the um was covered 

 by a large flat stone, as in the bai-row on Tan Hill, opened in 1855 ; 

 at other times with flints as in two baiTows near Little Dumford ; 

 and with unburnt clay, firmly rammed in ! ^ Very commonly 

 the urn when deposited was protected by being inclosed in a 

 heaped-up pile of flints. In six of the barrows the burnt bones 

 were not inclosed in fictile urns, nor merely in a simple cist or 

 grave, but in a coffer or shell rudely formed out of the unbarked 

 trunk of a tree. In one ease a more cai-efully-made chest of elm 

 wood seems to have been fastened together with rivets and strips of 



bronze. 



Objects Deposited with the Dead. 



" In the following table the barrows in *■ Ancient Wiltshire ■' are 

 classed according as the interments were accompanied by objects of 

 one sort or othei', disregarding occasional and less significant com- 

 binations : — 



Round Barrows. 



Unburnt Bodies. Bnmt Bodies. Total. 



With urns or other fictile vessels only 17 67 84 



„ implements of bone % 14 16 



,; „ of stone 7 5 12 



„ „ of stone and bronze 4 15 



of bronze 3 14 58 72 



„ ornaments only 9 20 29 



With objects 53 165 218 



Without objects 29 107 136 



Total 82 272 354 



1 Wilts Arch. Mag., vi., 326; Ancient Wilts, i., 221 ; Archseologia, xxx., 60. 



^ The bronze implements comprised twenty-two awls (without other imple- 

 ments), four celts, and about fifty blades of knives or daggers, sometimes two, 

 in one case three, with the same interment. 



