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two deep cists were found, containing an immense quantity of wood 

 ashes, and large pieces of charred wood, but no other signs of in- 

 terment. No. 4 had been opened before. No. 5 is 5 feet high, and 

 110 feet in base diameter. The primary interment in the large cist 

 consisted of the head of a skeleton, but no vertebrae or ribs ; further 

 on were the thigh-bones, legs, etc. At the feet a little rude drinking 

 cup, and two pieces of a dark-coloured slaty kind of stone. (PI. xiv.) 

 Above the primary interment, was, at the depth of 2 feet on the 

 south side of the cist, the skeleton of an infant; and at a foot above 

 the floor of the barrow was found the skeleton of a young person, 

 and upon the same level on the south side, was an interment of 

 burnt bones. This tumulus. Sir E,. Hoare thought, might prove 

 yet more productive, if more carefully examined. No 6 had been 

 previously explored. In No. 7, a fine bell-shaped barrow, 122 feet 

 in diameter, and 9 feet high, the interment was missed, but the 

 fragment of a very large urn and a few burnt bones led Sir R. Hoare 

 to think that the barrow might have been opened before. No. 8. 

 This barrow, rather inclined to the bell-shape, is 82 feet in diameter, 

 and 74 in elevation. It contained within a shallow oblong cist the 

 burnt bones (as conceived) of two persons, piled together, but without 

 arms or trinkets. A whetstone and a piece of squared stone were 

 also found in it. No. 9, 16 inches high, produced between the horns 

 of two stags, a rudely-made, yet in outline an elegant, urn, inverted 

 over a pile of burnt bones. (PI. xvi.) Beneath was the skeleton of 

 an adult, and at a depth of 4 feet below, was another skeleton with 

 its head placed towards the north. No. 10. In this small tumulus 

 was an oblong cist, and in the further part of it a few fragments of 

 burnt bones, and a large glass bead, which has two circular lines of 

 opaque sky-blue and white, which seem to represent a serpent in- 

 twined round a centre which is perforated. "This was certainly one 

 of the Glain Neidyr of the Britons, derived from Glain, what is pure 

 and holy, and neidyr, a snake.^^ This is engraved in " Tumuli,^' 

 pi. xiv. No. 11 is a "pond barrow." 



Leaving- the Winterbourn Stoke group, and proceeding in a line 

 towards Stonehcnge, we find but few barrows, until we approach the 

 precincts of that monument. 



