On the Barrow of Lanhill near Chippenham. 67 
to his successors—‘ I have the vanity to hope that some of those 
who shall succeed in the benefice I now enjoy, will be glad to 
recollect that they had a certain predecessor who seemed to have 
some zeal for the good estate of his church and parish, and who 
was at some charge and pains to search into histories and records, 
upon no other motive but the love of his parochial charge and the 
benefit of posterity.” J.W. 
ON THE 
Barraw at Lonbill near Chippenham, 
WITH REMARKS ON THE SITE OF, AND ON THE EVENTS CONNECTED WITH 
Che Battles of Cynnit and ECthandun, 
A.D. 878. 
By Jonun Tuunnam, M.D. F.S.A. 
The Lanhill Barrow is situated about three miles north-west of 
Chippenham, very near a farm-house of that name, in a meadow 
close to the road leading to Marshfield and Bristol. It is thus 
described, as it existed in the middle of the 17th century, by Aubrey 
in his “ Monumenta Britannica”! “On the left hand of the road 
from Chippenham to Bristow, about half a mile short of Biteston, 
near a ground called Lanhill in Chippenham parish, is a barrow 
or tumulus, commonly known by the name of Barrow Hill, where 
they say one Hubba lies buried. This monument is sixty paces 
long, it is raised of small stone-brash stones, such as the fields 
thereabouts doe so plentifully yield; and is covered with earth a 
quarter of a foot thick; which I came to know by the tenant, who 
thought to have digged down this hill, for the earth to lay on 
other land. Perhaps there might have been some stones at the 
great end as in Lugbury.” To what is here said, as to this barrow 
being regarded as the burial-place of Hubba, we will return. 
1 See “Ancient Wilts” by Sir R. C. Hoare, vol. Il. p. 99. The original 
MS. of Aubrey’s ‘“‘ Monumenta Britannica” is now in the Bodleian Library, 
Oxford; and a copy of the part relating to Wiltshire is preserved in the library, 
collected by the late Sir R. ©. Hoare, at Stourhead. - 
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