338 OPENING OF AN ANCIENT BARROW 
urns were made of earth, which had not been baked, 
but only dried in the sun; and, that, in this barrow, 
urns were found of better workmanship, evidently 
made upon a potter’s wheel, in a more advanced 
state of society ; which showed, that this barrow 
had been used as a place of burial, for a long 
period. Mr. Miles, in his account of the De- 
verel barrow, says: ‘‘all the urns, except one, 
“were placed with their mouths upward, which 
“¢ appears a custom more prevalent in Dorset, than 
‘in Wiltshire barrows; since, Sir R. C. Hoare, in 
‘‘his introduction to ancient Wilts, observes, that, 
‘¢ the bones when burnt, were collected and placed 
“within the urn, which was frequently deposited 
“with its mouth downward, in a cist cut out of 
“the chalk.” 
The circular chamber, at Castle hill, corres- 
ponds to the circular base, on which the urns were 
placed in the Deverel barrow: the animal remains, 
placed on the green sward, and the arch of clay 
above them, correspond to the inverted urns, co- 
vering the ashes, described by Sir R.C. Hoare, in 
the Wiltshire barrows; only, the arch of clay, at 
Castle hill, seems to indicate a more ancient 
period, than the inverted urns in the Wiltshire 
