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The following notes, here printed verbatim, as they occur in a 

 small note book at Lake House in the writing of the Eev. Edward 

 Duke, dating, no doubt, from early in the nineteenth century, ap- 

 pear to be a record of some sixteen barrows in the neighbourhood 

 of Lake House opened by him about that time. 



Numbers 1 to 4 of these Notes probably refer to the barrows 

 mentioned by Hoare, Ancient Wilts, I., 212, 213, under the num- 

 bers 16 to 20, certainly No. 4 of the "Notes" is No. 20 in AncieiU 

 Wilts, but the remainder of the barrows here noted do not seem 

 to be mentioned by Hoare. Four of their number (Nos. 12 — 15) 

 are what Sir E. C. Hoare called " Pond Barrows," i.e., those circular 

 depressions of whicli one or two are often found accompanying 

 gi'oups of barrows on the downs. Sir li. C. Hoare constantly 

 records the fact that nothing was found when these " Pond 

 Barrows " were investigated by him, and Dr. Thurnam and subse- 

 quent arclueologists have altogether rejected the idea of their 

 sepulchral origin. It is to be noted, however, that in one of the 

 cases here noted — No. 12 — a circular cist in the chalk containing 

 a deposit of burnt bones did occur. 



The "Druid Barrow" of these notes and ol Ancient Wilts, is the 

 " Disc-shaped Barrow " of later archseologists, as the " Brass lance 

 head" is really not a spear head at all, but a bronze dagger or 

 knife dagger. 



It will be remembered that the collection of antiquities formed 

 by Mr. Duke at Lake House was sold in London in 1895, when 

 the greater portion of the objects were bought by the British 

 Museum,^ where they are now exhibited in the Bronze Age Eoom. 



' See full list of the objects bought by the British Museum, Wilts Arch, 

 Mag., xxviii., 260—262. 



