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it would have been so carefully varied in each instance, nor would 

 the primary and simple form have been so much departed from. 

 This is the first time that I have met with the cross, except as 

 an ornament upon buttons and upon the bottoms of sepulchral 

 vessels, but a very remarkable instance of the discovery of articles 

 all but identical is recorded by Sir R. Colt Hoare \ who found 

 four bone objects in a barrow in Wiltshire, which can only be 

 regarded as beads, though they are not perforated. As in the case 

 of those under notice, three of them were ornamented and one plain, 

 and the ornament is so much alike in both the Yorkshire and 

 Wiltshire specimens that the one set might almost pass for the 

 other. This identity is very noteworthy, for though with the 

 same people, at the same time, and living under much the same 

 conditions, it might naturally be looked for that the various articles 

 of domestic, agricultural, and warlike purpose should partake of 

 the same shape, and even be decorated after much the same fashion, 

 it is nevertheless striking to find that two sets of beads, discovered 

 in places so widely separated as Yorkshire and Wiltshire, should be 

 not only the same in shape, number, and material, as well as in the 

 style of ornamentation, but even in the absence of all pattern upon 

 one of the beads in each set. It would almost seem as though there 

 had been something more in this instance than a general intercourse 

 or community of thought between the two places in question. At 

 the same time, it must be remembered that there is a very striking 

 resemblance between many manufactured articles belonging to this 

 period and occurring over wide areas. 



PARTSH OF CHERRY BURTON. Orel. Map. xciv. s.w. 



The group of barrows to be now described is situated on a 

 different part of the wolds from any yet examined, being placed 

 towards the south-eastern boundary of the chalk range. They were 

 eight in number, six of them being placed in a line, running east 

 and west, at no great distance from each other ; the other two lying 

 a little further to the north. They were situated upon Cherry 

 Burton Wold, and about half-a-mile to the south of the site of the 

 village of Gardham, one of those now destroyed centres of a 

 comparatively late population of which several are to be met with 



1 Ancient Wilts, vol. i. p. 212. pi. xxxi. 



