198 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



No. 12. A group of small tumuli, in one of which was a very rude 

 urn, badly baked, and containing ashes, burnt bones, and two pieces 

 of twisted bronze wire, which probably once formed a ring; this 

 urn was not inverted. 



13. A simple interment of bones. 14. A group consisting of eight 

 barrows of different sizes, and close to the road leading to Amesbury. 

 " The tumulus nearest that place produced the largest sepulchral urn 

 we have ever yet found, measuring 1 5 inches in diameter at the top, 

 and being 22^ inches high. It contained an interment of burnt 

 bones, which was protected by a large triangular stone placed over 

 the mouth of the urn.-*^ (PI. xvi.) This is the urn, called, par ex- 

 cellence, the " Stonehenge Urn.-''' Two of this group of barrows are 

 large ; that nearest the road is bowl-shaped, 80 feet in base diameter 

 and 83 in elevation. The interment was met with at 8| feet, in a 

 shallow oblong cist, where the burnt bones had been interred in a 

 box of wood. In the adjoining large tumulus was an interment by 

 cremation, which had in former times been disturbed by rabbits. 

 Of the others two had been opened before ; in one other was found 

 a bronze spear-head, and in this and the remainder were deposits of 

 burnt bones. ^ In No. 15 was a deposit of burnt bones within a cist. 

 Some scattered fragments of bone led to the belief that a skeleton 

 had been found when it had been opened before. No. 16. Amutilated 

 flat barrow, 76 feet in diameter, and only 3 in elevation. In this 

 barrow were found chippings of the Stonehenge stones. (See pp. 

 64, 65.) No. 17. A long barrow, in which nothing was discovered. 

 No. 18. Is injured by rabbits. No. 19. Seems to have been one of 

 those opened either by Lord Pembroke or Dr. Stukeley, who had 

 found the interment in an oblong cist. No. 20. Had been opened 

 before and contained the interment of a skeleton. Nos. 21 and 22 

 were unproductive. No. 23 had been opened without result by Mr. 



1 The smaller barrows in this group have been nearly obliterated by a farmer, 

 who has ploughed up this part of the down neatly to the stone circles. The 

 large tumulus nearest to the road has been deliberately degraded to its present 

 low condition. All traces of the group adjoining Stonehenge (Nos. 15 to 22 

 inclusive) have disappeared. A slight elevation above the surrounding soil just 

 indicates where the highest of them had been. 



