264 The Stourhead Collections of Antiquities and Books. 



barrows are of the more simple forms, with plain tangs, or with 

 rivets, not socketed, and consequently indicate greater age.' 



It is so difficult to obtain the truth in connection with these 

 remote antiquities that this attempt to remove an error out of the 

 way will, it is hoped, be deemed a sufficient reason for the present 

 notes. 



W. CUNNINGTON. 



London, 1883. 



m^ §oofe* 



jARLY in the year 1883 it was announced to the Committee 

 'WMh that the " Stourhead Collection of Antiquities " was for 

 sale, in common with many of the books, drawings, and other 

 objects of interest in connection with the archseology of Wiltshire, 

 which had also been collected by Sir R. C. Hoare. 



It will be remembered that the " Antiquities " consist chiefly of 

 the contents of the barrows of Wiltshire exhumed early in the 

 present century by the eminent antiquary, Sir R. C. Hoare, and his 

 coadjutor, Mr. William Cunnington : and that, some three years 

 ago, they were removed, by the courtesy of the present owner of 

 Stourhead, to the Museum at Devizes; and here, owing to the 

 painstaking exertions of the Curators, the various articles of which 

 the collection consists have been carefully arranged, labelled, and 

 displayed in cases. 



^ " Side looped spear-heads are almost peculiar to the British Isles, and are more 

 common in Ireland than in England. Where there are no rivets there are loops." 

 " Hora Ferales," edited by Mr. Franks. 



