Notes on Barrows at Lake. 583 



Unfortunately it is not possible in most cases to identify the 

 objects with any particular barrows, as, with the exception of 

 those figured in Ancient Wilts, the labels attached to the specimens 

 seldom gave any further information than that they came from 

 " a Barrow at Lake." Nor, to tell the truth, do these notes of 

 Mr. Duke's throw very much new light on the matter, as the 

 dagger blades, urns, &c., are not described sufficiently for purposes 

 of identification ; but, as every scrap of information in connection 

 with such important finds may be of value, it seems worth while 

 to print them here. In this connection it cannot be too often and 

 too strongly impressed upon all finders or possessors of antiquities 

 that their manifest duty is to label each object in such a way that 

 the full particulars as to its origin and discovery may not be lost. 

 Half the museum specimens in England have lost half their value 

 from the fact that their original owners have neglected to do this. 

 I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. T. H. Raker, of Salisbury, 

 for the careful transcription of the original notes, and to Mr. 

 Lovibond, of Lake House, for allowing the copy to be made. 



Ed. H. Goddaed. 



1. A large campaniform barrow with a rather flat apex — at the central 

 part of the bottom was an oblong cist 1 yard Sin. in depth in which was a 

 deposit of burnt bones together with a lance head of brass. In order to raise 

 this and the surrounding barrows in general of this group to the height they 

 are of, it was found necessary to construct them in part of other materials 

 than mould— the common and simple substance of most of the barrows on 

 the plain, the intermediate stratum of this barrow was of large flints (such 

 as are usually found on the plain in those places where the land has been 

 formerly in cultivation) the depth of the different strata was as follows : — 

 mould, 1 yd. ; flints, 1 yd. 2ft. ; mould, 1ft. Sin. 



The diameter at the base measured 28yds. 1 ft. ; the elevation, 8yds. Sin. 



2. A large campaniform barrow totally- composed of vegetable earth taken 

 from the surface of the suiTounding land. It contained no cist but a small 

 pile of bones was found on its floor together with a brass lance head and a 

 boar's tusk. 



Base diameter, 25yds.; elevation, 3yds. 8in. 



3. Originally a most beautiful campaniform barrow but its vallum and 

 base is now much mutilated by the plough. Eather out of the centre was 



an oblong cist of the depth of 1 yard containing burnt bones together with 

 an arrow or dart head of brass. In this barrow in various places and in thin 



