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The lowest part had been opened, and contained an interment of 

 burnt bones. In the other mound was an interment of burnt bones, 

 secured by a linen cloth under a rude urn. No. 113, although pre- 

 viously examined, yielded fragments of an urn and skeleton. No. 

 114 contained a deposit of burnt bones and ashes, in a deep cist. 

 No. 115 the same, but had been opened before. No 116 had been 

 opened. No. 117 contained a small rude urn, with an interment of 

 burnt bones. No. 118. A small long barrow, and produced a de- 

 posit of burnt bones and black ashes in a neat circular cist. No. 

 119 had an interment of burnt bones in a small cist. No. 120 is a 

 " pond" barrow. No. 121 produced a rude urn reversed over a deposit 

 of burnt bones. On the south side o£ Durrington "Walls is an 

 elevated mound, having the appearance of a barrow. No. 122, but, 

 after digging to the depth of 11 feet, no sepulchral traces were 

 found. No. 123, mutilated. No. 124, appearing like three barrows 

 rising from one large base, but certainly a long baiTow. It stands 

 from south-west to north-east, and has its wide end towards the west. 

 On the small end, and also on the centre, are mounds resembling two 

 cii'cular barrows Sir Richard opened that on the small end, and 

 found only a few ashes and charred wood ; but in the central mound 

 we discovered, near the top, a skeleton and a drinking cup, both of 

 which had been disturbed. On reaching the floor of the long barrow we 

 found a circular cist like a little well, but it contained no interment. 

 From this well-like cist, a tunnel, like a chimney, ascended nearly to 

 the top. " I imagine that, as in most of our long barrows, the 

 primary interment would be at the broad end. In this tumulus we 

 have rather a singular instance of a circular barrow being raised 

 upoii a long barrow." Nos. 125, 126, and 127 being in tillage, 

 were not opened. Nos. 128 and 129 had been previously opened, 

 but the cist of the latter, containing an interment of burnt bones, 

 with a lance- head of bronze,^ had escaped unnoticed. No. 130 had 



'"The bronze blades from the barrows are by Hoare variously described as 

 those of daggers, spears, lances, and arrows. The great majority were probably 

 " daggers or knives for hunting, or for every daj- purposes. No other tumuli 

 have been so productive in sucb implements as those of Wiltshire ; nor have so 

 many of such large proportions and beautiful workmanship been found in any 

 other district." (Thutnam's Anc. Brit. Barrows, " Archseol.," xliii., 448.) 



