42 On Leaf-shaped Javelin-heads of Flint, 



by simple inhumation being still often resorted to. The attribution 

 of the oval barrow to the bronze period might thus be not ill-founded, 

 even if objects of bronze had not as yet been discovered in them. 

 But in a barrow of this description on Roundway Down, near Devizes, 

 in the examination of which by Mr. W. Cunnington, F.G.S., I had 

 the opportunity of assisting, two blades of bronze were found, one 

 with a deposit of burnt bones at the east, another with a similar 

 deposit at the west end of the burial mound. ^ In another oval 

 tumulus, moreover, that called " Kill-barrow" near Tilshead, opened 

 in 1865, I found many of the burnt bones strongly tinged with 

 copper, clearly proving that objects of bronze had been burnt with 

 the bodies. 



A third oval barrow, on Draycot Hill, near Huish, is described 

 by Sir Richard Hoare thus : "This long barrow is of low elevation, 

 and has three depressions at equal distances, indicating as many 

 places of interment." (Vol. ii. p. 11, pi. ii.) It was opened by 

 me, August 20, 1863,* when two simple deposits of burnt bones 

 were found in cists in the chalk rock, corresponding to the eastern 

 and second depressions. There were no other objects of any des- 

 cription. If any interment corresponding to the western depression 

 exist, it was not reached by our excavations. 



The oval barrow on Winterbourne Stoke Down, in which the 

 flint objects now to be described were discovered, was opened May 5, 

 1864. Near the east end, at the depth of about a foot and a half, 

 was the skeleton of a person of middle stature, closely doubled up, 

 and with the head to the north. Close to the back of the skull was 

 a small " drinking cup " of richly decorated red pottery, such as 

 is found with skeletons in the later round barrows. Like the 

 brachycephalic (.80) skeleton with which it was found, it was much 

 decayed and broken. The centre of the mound was searched for a 

 second interment ; if any exists in this situation it was not reached 

 by us, though, to the west of the centre, a small cup of coarse 

 thick pottery was dug up. A third opening was successfully made 



1 Wilts Arch. Mag, vol. vi., p. 162. Barrow No. 6, Cran. Brit. pi. xxxi., 

 43, p. (2). 



2 On the occasion of the Meeting of the "Wilts Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society, at Devizes, 1863. 



