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enclosed within the same ditch, was opened by the Earl of Pem- 

 broke, in the year 17^2, and is marked A. in table ix., of Stukeley, 

 and described at page 44 of his " Stonehenge." He had found the 

 deposit of a skeleton three feet under the surface, with its head 

 placed in a northerly direction towards Sto'aehenge. Sir R. Hoare 

 found the cist, which contained an interment of burnt bones, and 

 with it two articles of ivory in high preservation. The one resembled 

 a small lance-head, the other is like the handle of a cup. (See 

 Hoare's Ancient Wilts, plate xxiv.) Dr. Stukeley had cleared a 

 part of the floor of the small barrow, and left two half-pence 

 covered with stones. Mr. Cunnington, however, continuing his 

 researches, soon perceived the well-known line of chalk which led 

 them to a cist at the east end of the barrow, and to an interment 

 of burnt bones, with which were deposited four amber beads, two of 

 jet with convoluted stripes, and a little broken cup. No. 148 was 

 unproductive. No. 149 had been opened. In No. 150 the interment 

 was missed. No. 151 is a small long barrow; and Nos. 152, 153 

 and 154 had been opened before. No. 155, a fine bell-shaped 

 barrow, 92 feet in diameter, and 11 high. On the floor was found 

 a large quantity of burned bones, and with them an earthen cup of 

 a peculiar pattern, a cone of gold similar to that discovered in the 

 golden barrow at Upton Lovel, five other articles of gold and several 

 curious ornaments of amber. (See plate xxv., of Ancient Wilts, 

 vol. i.) The cone of gold is ornamented at intervals with four 

 circular indentations, which are all dotted with a pointed instrument 

 in the same manner as the lines on British pottery. The base of the 

 cone is covered with a plate, which is also ornamented with indented 

 circular lines, and is made to overlap the lower edge of the cone to 

 which it is fastened ; it is perforated at bottom in two places for the 

 purpose of suspension. The two circular trinkets are extremely 

 beautiful, and in high preservation ; they are composed of red amber 

 set round with gold, and are also perforated for suspension. They 

 resemble the articles found by Dr. Stukeley in a barrow, of which 

 there is an engraving in his Tab. xxxii. "No barrow that we 

 have yet opened has ever produced such a variety of singular and 

 elegant articles, for except the cone of gold, all are novelties, both 



