214 Stonehenge and its Barrows. 



size as the floor was approached. On the north side of the section 

 was found the cist from whence this marl had been thrown outj it 

 was 8^ feet long, and above 2 wide, and contained a pile of burnt 

 human bones, which had been enclosed within a box of wood. Near 

 the bones lay a fine spear head and a whetstone. (PI. xxviii ) No. 

 9, a fine bell-shaped barrow, 10 feet high, produced only a simple 

 interment of burnt bones on the floor. In No. 1 nothing was found 

 but the skeleton of a dog- and the head of a deer.^ Nos. 11 and 12 

 had been previously opened. No. 13 contained a simple interment 

 of burnt bones. In No. 14 and 15 we see a kind of double barrow, 

 the smallest end of which had been opened before. The floor of the 

 larger mound was strewed with an immense quantity of wood ashes, 

 and in a small oblong cist was an interment of burnt bones, together 

 with four glass pully beads, one of stone, two of ambei', and a bronze 

 pin. On the north side of the adjoining inclosure, but not within 

 it, are a few small barrows, scarcely elevated above the soil, which 

 were more productive than their size seemed to promise. No. 21 

 had been opened before, but amongst the earth and scattered bones 

 were some fragments of a fine drinking cup, some chipped flints and 

 one perfect arrow-head of flint. Nx). 22 had been partially opened, 

 but amongst the unburnt bones which had been moved were found 



' Pr. Thurnam says (page 25 of " Ancient British liarrows," part ii.) : "I 

 have myself successfully re-opened tumuli, 'unproductive' under the hands of 

 Hoare and Cunnington, whose explorations had yielded ' no signs of interment.' 

 Fifty or sixty years after these unsuccessful atteirpts, I was, in the ease of four 

 barrows, rewarded by the discovery of interments of burnt bodies, eccentrically 

 deposited. One was on Lake Down (Ancient Wilts, i., 211 (10), on which 

 Cunnington had made two trials. The others were on Winterbourn Stoke 

 Down (Ibid, i., 121 (10), 124 (23), the fourth being one of two or three very 

 small mounds, about a quarter of a mile to the north, not distinguished by 

 numbers. (Ibid, i., 126.) In three of the number the burnt bones were con- 

 tained in shallow graves, whilst in the fourth they were collected into a large 

 upright urn, with the rim in close proximity to the ploughed surface of the very 

 low burial mound." Dr. Thurnam opened besides, barrows not examined by 

 Sir R. Hoare, at Lake, Amesbury " (Seven Bairows," North, " King Barrow," 

 and Winterbourn Stoke (p. 5 of Ancient British Barrows, ii.) ; but, with the 

 exception of the information that the last was unsuccessful, and that thS 

 examination of two of the five barrows at Winterbourn Stoke had been des- 

 cribed in " Proc. Ant. Soc." 2nd series, ii., 427 — 429, he has not published 

 details respecting them. 



