By the Rev. A. C. Smith, M.A. 



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their respective holes, but the metal, from the extreme moisture of 

 the situation, had become oxjdised throughout, and when dried 

 extremely brittle and friable ; it was four-and-a-half inches in length 

 and one-and-a-half inch in breadth at the broadest part." ^ 



Blade of a hunting spear, found in a barrow at Yatesburyi 



In addition to these records of the contents of our barrows, 

 Stukeley gives the following account of previous successful openings 

 here : " Mr. Bray of Monkton opened a barrow, among many others, 

 * Salisbury volume of Institute, page 97. 



