from an Oval Barrow. 45 



They seem, from their size, to be the heads of arrows, and not those 

 of javelins. 



I have been somewhat particular in the description of the objects 

 figured above, and of the barrow whence they were obtained, in 

 order to distinguish them from some small and extremely delicate 

 leaf-shaped arrow-heads of flint, which I have in several instances 

 found in long barrows, properly so called, which seem to me to 

 merit the name of the " long-barroic type of arrow-head" and as to 

 which I will now offer some remarks. 



In the summer of 1860 I made an excavation in a very large 

 long barrow on Walker's Hill, Alton Down, North Wilts. The 

 barrow appears to have been a chambered one, and had been sur- 

 rounded by an enclosing wall, as described in the Archaeologia.^ 

 Among the debris of the ruined chamber, near the east end, I 

 picked up the flint arrow-head by which my attention was first 

 directed to the subject before us. This relic in its present state, 

 measures about Ij in. in length, and ^^ of an inch in breadth. It 

 is of a leaf-shape, delicately chipped at the edges and on both sur- 

 faces to a surprising tenuity, and weighs only thirty grains. Both 

 points of this arrow-head were broken off when found, the fractures 

 being evidently ancient. The total length when perfect must have 

 been 1"8 inches, or 46 millimetres. 



In the year 1863 the Rev. S. Lysons, F.S.A., excavated a remark- 

 able chambered long barrow at Rodmarton, Gloucestershire, at the 

 operations connected with which I was invited to be present. 

 Here, in an undisturbed chamber, containing twelve or thirteen 

 skeletons, two delicately chipped flint arrow-heads, of similar type 

 with that last described, were found. Each, at both ends, was 



1 Vol. xxxviii., p. 410. Salisbury vol. of Arch. Institute, 1849, p. 98. By 

 the peasantry of the neighbourhood this barrow is known as " Old Adam," 

 (meaning Adam's grave), and one of the stones at its base as " Little Eve." 

 It is a conspicuous object in plate 2 of Hoare's Ancient Wilts, vol. ii., p. 8. 

 The hill, corruptly named "Walker's Hill" on the Ordnance Map, is by the 

 shepherds more properly called Walcway Hill. It is crossed by the ancient 

 British ridge-way (continuation of the Icknield), — the Weala-wego or Welsh- 

 xoay of an Anglo-Saxon charter in the Codex Winton (Alton Priors), See 

 Jones's Domesday for Wiltshire, 1865, p. xxvii. 



