the Downs of North Wiltshire. 333 



blade three inches in length, retaining one of the rivets by which 

 it had been attached to its handle, and altogether similar to that 

 figured at page 329. Adjoining the burnt bones, was a pile of 

 grey ashes mixed with wood charcoal. No secondary interment was 

 discovered in this barrow. 



The two groups of barrows above described, are clearly those 

 alluded to in a survey of "The Manor of Everleigh," of the 

 time of Elizabeth, printed in this Magazine, by Charles E. 

 Long, Esq. ; J where they are named as follows : — " Thence 

 westwarde by the boundes as they lie to a bound on the west side 

 of the iij burrowes w c h devideth this mannor and Upbaven, where- 

 hence north westwarde followinge the balkes and merestones to a 

 balle without the two burrowes nere adioyninge to Pewsey waie, 

 therehence north warde to Carrell Pitt, from thence to Popplestone, 

 deviding this mannor, Pewsie and Milton." 



In the preceding paper, the writer has described twentj'-seven 

 barrows, in addition to others opened and described by former in- 

 vestigators. If from these be deducted one specular mound (No. 3), 

 one long barrow apparently before opened (No. 13), three tumuli 

 in which, if not of the nature of cenotaphs, the interment must have 

 been overlooked (Nos. 18, 20, 23), there will remain twenty-two 

 in which the original interment seems to have been found. In 

 three only of the number, this consisted of the entire skeleton, in 

 the primitively contracted position. In the large proportion 

 of nineteen, there was distinct evidence of the practice of crema- 

 tion; in one of these a cinerarium alone was found (No. 17), in 

 another the burnt bones had been collected into an urn (No. 16), 

 whilst in the remainder they had been simply deposited in a 

 heap on the surface, or in a more or less superficial cist, scooped out 

 of the chalk. In two cases, the mound originally devoted to 

 burial after cremation, had, in a later age, been resorted to for the 

 interment of an entire body stretched at length. (Nos. 19 and 2G). 

 In seven only of the whole number, and these barrows containing 

 interments after cremation, were there the remains of personal 



1 Ante, p. 194. 



