40 On Leaf-shaped Javelin Beads of Flint. 



schoolfellow^ made some little amends for his bitterness to Arch- 

 bishop Laud, was Robekt Nicholas, of All Cannings. 

 (To he continued,) 



ON FOUR 

 FEOM AN Oval Baeeow neae Stonehenge ; and 



AND ITS CONNECTION "WITH LONG BAEEOWS. 



By John Thtjenam, M.D., F.S.A, 



[Eead at the Meeting at Salisbury, September, 1865 ; and reprinted from the Proceedings of the 

 Society of Antiquaries, 1864, 2nd series, vol. ii., p. 427 ; vol. iii., p. 168.J 



^HE importance of discoveries, even apparently trivial, which 

 throw light on the relative age of our more primeval 

 antiquities, or which serve to connect one with another objects of 

 this description, will at once be admitted. 



The barrow in which the flint objects now exhibited were 

 discoyered is situated on Winterbourne Stoke Down, about IJ mile 

 north-west of Stonehenge. It is within a few yards of the western 

 end of the low earthwork known as the " smaller ctcrstis," and is 

 numbered 49 on the " Map of Stonehenge, and its Environs," in 

 Sir Richard Hoare's Ancient Wilts (vol. i. p. 170). It was passed 

 over, when the barrows around it were generally excavated, in or 

 about the year 1808 ; and all that Sir Richard says of it is, " No. 

 49 is a long barrow" (p. 165) ; a designation, however, which we 

 shall find is not strictly appropriate, and is very liable to misconcep- 

 tion. The form of the barrow is oval, it being about 140 feet in 

 length by 70 in breadth, and in height less than 2 feet above the 

 level of the down. Its long axis lies east and west, and it is 

 surrounded by a slight ditch continued round both ends of the 

 barrow. It is thus seen to differ in several particulars from the 

 Long Barrow properly so-called ; in which the interments, belonging 

 apparently to the stone-age, and by simple inhumation, are confined 

 to the broad east end of the barrow. The true long barrow is 

 usually of much greater size, often reaching 250 or 300 feet and 



