202 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



with black vegetable mouldy at the depth of 5 feet, was the cist, at 

 the floor of the barrow containing a skeleton, lying from north to 

 south; and near it, a large branch of a stag's horn. No. 51. A 

 fine bell-shaped barrow, 95 feet in diameter, and 7 feet in elevation. 

 At the depth of 4^ feet in the native soil, viz., \\\ from the summit, 

 were found two skeletons, with their heads laid towards the north ; 

 the one, an adult, the other, a young person of about twelve years 

 of age. No. 52. In this was perceived earth, quite black, and some 

 burnt to a brick-colour. In 53, near the centre, was found a circular 

 cist containing only ashes, with a quantity of small bones, probably 

 of birds, dispersed about the barrow. No. 54. A fine bell-shaped 

 barrow, 80 feet in diameter, and 7 in height, produced, on the floor, 

 and near the centre, a circular cist, 18 inches wide, and 1 foot deep, 

 full of wood ashes, and a few fragments of burnt bones. About 2 

 feet to the north of the above was another cist, of an oblong form, 

 much larger and deeper than the other, which contained an interment 

 of burnt bones, piled up in a heap in the centre of the cist. No. 

 55 produced only a simple interment of burnt bones. In No. 56 a 

 cist was discovered, which had been previously investigated, but, on 

 opening it, the workmen found an arrow-head of flint near the top.* 

 The barrows numbered from 57 to 65 were opened by Mr. 

 Cunnington.2 Five of them are circular, and four disc-shaped, bar- 

 rows. The latter had been partially opened ; in one he found an 

 interment, with a broken dart or lance of bronze, and in another the 



2 S., ii., 427 ; Evans' " Ancient Stone Implements, " figs 273—275 ; " Wilts 

 Arch. Mag.," xi., 40. "The repeated discovery of simple leaf-shaped flint 

 arrow-heads in the long barrows; " is regarded by Dr. Ihurnam, as " some- 

 thing more than a coincidence." " It seems to indicate the concurrence of the 

 earliest type of finished flint weapon with probably the earliest form of sepul- 

 chral tumulus in this part of the world. The more advanced and complex 

 barbed flint arrow-heads, which are not unfrequently found in the circular 

 barrows of the age of bronze and of burning the dead, have never been found, 

 in the long barrows." (Wilts Arch., Mag., xi., 48.) 



'"Adjoining this group of barrows there are evident remains of another 

 cursus, apparently unfinished, which has not been noticed by the former writers 

 on Stonehenge." (Tumuli Wiltunenses, p. 26.) 



* " No regular account was kept of these discoveries." — Sir E. C. Hoare. 



