By Mrs. M. E Cnnnington. 15 



miles in a straight line from Upton Lovel.i All these were in 

 South Wilts, and Dr. Thurnam remarks "no objects of the precious 

 metal are found in the barrows in North Wilts." This find at 

 Manton seems to be the first exception to the rule. 



It is worthy of note that, while only seven Grape Cups are 

 known to have been found, and only eight Wiltshire barrows have 

 contained gold, in three cases the Grape Cup and the gold were 

 found associated in the same barrow.^ 



There are in the Museum at Devizes two pendants^ that came 

 from a barrow on Salisbury Plain strikingly similar to the one 

 found at Manton— indeed, so alike are they that it seems possible 

 that they were made by the same hands ; the only difference ap- 

 pears to be that those from the Plain are slightly larger, being 

 liin. in diameter, and that instead of the lines of ornamentation 

 being equi-distant they are arranged in two bands. The arrange- 

 ment of the holes for suspension and the dotted lines are identical. 

 A pair of similar pendants now in the British Museum also came 

 from a Wiltshire barrow.* These are covered with a thin casing 

 of gold, but what the centre is made of is not stated ; they are 

 ornamented with a zigzag or chevron pattern. These pendants 

 are usually, but not invariably, found in pairs. Stukeley records 

 the finding of a single one, and describes it as a " button-like object 

 completely covered with a film of thin gold," with a core of what 

 he calls " earth," but what Dr. Thurnam suggests was really decayed 



' 1-Upton Lovel Golden Barrow, burnt interment, Ancievt Wilts, p. 202 • 

 2-Normanton barrow 155, hurnt, ibid, p. 201; 3-Normanton, barrow 

 lofTT""'^ \^- '^'= 4-Normanton Bush Barrow, 158, unburnt, ^hid, 

 \ w ' oT^J" ?°''°' ''°''"'"°*' '^''^' P- ^^ ' 6-Lake, barrow 21, unburnt 



t \ Ir' ^-S'^'^^^^e^ge barrow, burnt, Stukeley's '^ Stonehenge, pp. 44 

 -62 ; 8-Manton. Although all these golden barrows have striking points 

 of resemblance to each other, and doubtless belong to the same people and 

 period, there seems to be no kind of rule as to the mode of burial, three being 

 by cremation and five by inhumation. ^ 



- Ancient Wilts, barrows Nos. 40 and 156, and at Manton. 

 => Ancient Wilts, p. 201. Stourhead Cat., No. 134. 

 •• Ancient Wilts, p. 213, Lake, barrow No. 21. 



