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edge of a cairn of sarsens was reached, 3ft. in depth and built up on the original 

 eurface-level. The stones were so evenly built in that it was with difficulty that 

 a pickaxe could be forced between them. Following these along they were found 

 to rise within 6in. of the surface of the tumulus. When these had been removed 

 to a depth of 4ft. the original chalk level was reached, when a cist was found in 

 the centre full of burnt bones, on the top of which was the rim of an imperfectly 

 burnt urn, and a small turned conical button pierced under its base in pulley 

 fashion with a hole for the string, apparently of Kimmeridge shale, similar in 

 shape to specimens now in the Stourhead Collection at Devizes. 



The second barrow lies in a ploughed field near the 6th milestone from Swindon 

 on the Hungerford Road. It seems really to consist of two barrows joined 

 together. A trench was dug in the easternmost of the two, beginning on the 

 south-east side. At 3ft. from the centre the bottom of an "incense cup" 

 was discovered, and when within 1ft. of the centre the chalk on the original 

 surface level was found to be of a dirty brown colour and was rammed down so 

 hard that the pickaxe would hardly enter it. On the surface of this chalk, and 

 not in a cist, under the centre of the harrow was a heap of burnt bones. Nothing 

 else was found. 



A. D. Passmobb, 



Swindon. 



Skeletons at Kingston Deverill. 



Whilst dicing a pit for the purpose of chalking some land on Kingston 

 Deverill Down about 1853, several skeletons were found a slight distance under 

 the surface — there having been previously no tumulus or any sign on the surface 

 of the interment below. The exact spot is the chalk pit nearest Mere Down 

 Farm on the right-hand side of the road going towards Kingston, about 53 yards 

 from the highway. The man who found them said that the skeletons were 

 ranged round with their feet together. A number of " loom weights " of chalk 

 were found with them. These passed into the hands of the Eev. D. M. Clerk, 

 who gave them, I believe, to the Salisbury Museum. 



T. H. Baker, 



Mere Down. 



Find op Roman Coins at Mere Cemetery in 1856. 



The following account of this discovery, which seems never to have been 

 noted in the Magazine, is taken from a MS. note-book belonging to the late 

 Kev, D. M. Clerk, Rector of Kingston Deverill, who died 1893, now in my 



