By William Long, Esq. 209 



circular cist, an interment of burnt bones, and with it a great 

 variety of amber, jet, and glass beads. In No. IGl, a low barrow, 

 was a skeleton with a drinking cup, the head towards the south- 

 east; and eighteen inches lower down was another, lying on its left 

 side, with the head towards the east. Beneath this again in a cist 

 nearly 6 feet deep, cut in the chalk, was the primary interment, a 

 young man with a drinking cup close to his right hand, the head 

 lying towards the north. No. 16:J had been opened before. No. 

 163 contained an interment of burnt bones, deposited in a shallow 

 oval cist, with the fragments of a small cup, and a bone pin. 

 No. 164 may be considered as the most beautiful bell-shaped barrow 

 in the plains of Stonehenge. Its base diameter is 145 feet, and its 

 elevation 14^ feet. It contained, within a very shallow cist, the 

 skeleton of a man, with his head deposited towards the north-east, 

 upon a plank of elm wood ; on the left side of the head was a fine 

 dagger of bronze, and a small lance-head of the same metal, the 

 former of which had been guarded by a wooden case : at the feet 

 of the skeleton was a richly-ornamented drinking cup. Some stags' 

 horns were at the head and feet of the skeleton. Large pieces of 

 petrified wood were found in holes extending from the top to the 

 bottom of the barrow. No. 165^ is a small oblong barrow, and 

 was opened at the broad end, but the sepulchral deposit was not 

 found. No. 166 contained the remains of a skeleton, with a drinking 

 cup and stags^ horns. No. 167 is a "pond" barrow." No. 168 produced 



^ In "Tumuli Wiltunenses," 165 is described as a small oblong barrow, in 

 which we found interments, as usual, at the broad end." p. 41. This was 

 opened by Dr. Thurnam. Three skeletons were found, and secondary inter- 

 ments." 



^ " Pond barrow, a misnomer introduced by Sir R. C. Hoare, it not being a 

 barrow at all, but a circular excavation in the surface, similar to what might be 

 made for a pond. The name ' barrow' necessarily involves the idea of a mound 

 or heap, and, as applied to sepulchral monuments, implies a grave-mound ; it is 

 entirely inapplicable to such hollows as are here referred to. These circular ex- 

 cavations are olten found among or adjacent to the barrows of Wiltshire, but 

 the area within has scarcely ever yielded traces of interment. Sir R. Hoare 

 and the Rev. E. Duke excavated the centre of three without finding sepulchral 

 or other remains ; in a fourth, however, in a hole in the chalk, there was a de- 

 posit of burnt bones. Dean Merewether opened others in I^orth Wilts, and the 

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