By William Long, Esq., M.A. 843 



hill south of Silbury. It is about 300 feet long and 35 feet wide, 

 and is called the Long Barrow. At the east end are about 40 large 

 sarsens (one of them is 11 feet long and 6 wide, another is 9 feet 

 long, 7 broad, and 2 thick) 13'^ing confusedly one over the other. 

 They doubtless originally formed a chamber. A farmer cut a wag- 

 gon drive through this barrow, some time ago, much to the annoy- 

 ance of his landlord.^ 



Another long barrow, about a mile to the south east of the last, 

 is now planted with trees. It was opened, a few years ago, by the 

 Rev. Mr. Connor of East Kennet. 



The Mill barrow at Monkton, a mile or more north of Abury, and 

 of which Stukeley gives an engraving, was 215 feet long and 55 

 broad, and was set round with great stones, the broad end east, the 

 narrow west. Aubrey says, "The barrow is a yard high at least." 

 It was levelled not many years ago. Dr. Merewether " saw the 

 man v/ho was employed in the profanation. It contained," he 

 said, "a sort of room built up wi' big sarsens put together like, as 

 well as a mason could set them ; in the room was a sight of black 

 stuflF, and it did smill nation bad." 



In a field about 300 yards west of Mill barrow, was the large sar- 

 sen, upon the removal of which several skeletons were found a few 

 years ago. Since this discovery (which is described in the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological Magazine, vol. i. p. 303,) several other sarsen stones 

 have been taken up in the same field, with similar results. With 

 one of these deposits were jet ornaments, objects of stone and 

 pottery, including two drinking cups,now preserved in the Society's 

 Museum at Devizes. 



" In Monkton fields," says Aubrey (in his Monumenta Britan- 

 nica), " is a long pitched stone seven foot and more ; it leaneth 

 eastward upon two stones. It is called Shelving stone."^ (Plate viii. 



' This barrow deserves a careful and thorough examination, and ^\hen the 

 Wiltsliire Arcliffiolofpcal and Natural History Society hold their meeting at 

 Marlborough, they would do well to turn their attention to it, and apply for 

 permission to open it. Aubrey gives rude sketches of this and the Mill barrow. 



* " A Kist-vaen certainly sepulchral," says Sir II. C. Hoare. This, however, 

 may be doubted, as Jlr. Ilillicr, of Monkton, last year examined the site of these 

 stones, but found no traces of burnt bones, or of any thing to show that there 



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