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been partially opened, but some of the interments remained perfect, 

 and were attended with some novel and singular circumstances. At 

 the depth of about a foot and a half from the surface was a skeleton 

 with a drinking- cup, and lower down a deposit of burnt bones. On 

 the east side of the barrow lay the skeletons of two infants, one with 

 its head towards the east, the other towards the west, each placed 

 over the head of a cow, which from fragments of the horns, appeared 

 to have been of small size. We afterwards found a cist nearly four 

 feet deep in the chalk, which contained the primary interment, viz., 

 the skeleton of a man ; but these relics had been disturbed, and some 

 bronze articles, with which the bones were tinged, had been removed. 

 No. 131 had been opened. No. 132. In a deep cist were found an 

 unusually large quantity of burnt bones, two drinking cups, two 

 incense cups, and two bronze pins. The quantity of bones and the 

 duplicate articles led Sir R. Hoare to suppose that this mound had 

 been raised over two persons. (Plate xxiv.) No. 133 is a very high 

 barrow, but the plough had made very considerable encroachments 

 round its base. It contained, within a deep cist, a pile of burnt 

 bones, and a very beautiful and perfect grape cup (engraved in plate 

 xxiv. of "Ancient Wilts'')- Nos. 134, 135, 136, and 137 bore 

 marks of prior openings. No. 138 had been opened. No. 139, a 

 mean barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth,produced, within a 

 shallow cist, a pile of burnt bones, and with them two fine daggers 

 of bronze, a long pin of the same metal in the form of a crutch, 

 a whetstone, and a small pipe of bone, about 7 or 8 inches long, and 

 more than a quarter of an inch in diameter at the small, and half 

 an inch at the large end (plate xxiv) ; it is thin, and neatly polished, 

 and has a perforation near the centre. Nos. 140, 141, 142, 143, 

 previously explored by the neighbouring farmers. No. 144, a wide 

 bowl-shaped barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth, contained 

 the remains of a skeleton within an oblong cist, with head towards 

 the north and with a small lance-head of bronze. No. 145, pre- 

 viously explored, but in the cist was discovered a piece of ivory 

 resembling the handle of a cup, and a large black pebble. No. 146 

 appears to have been the barrow opened by Dr. Stukeley, and marked 

 B. in table ix., of his work. No. 147. One of these barrows. 



