554 LONG BARROWS. 



section of two lines, one drawn along the mesial line of the barrow, 

 from N.E. to S.W., the other drawn across that line at its middle. 

 For a distance of 57 ft. from the north-east end the barrow was 

 constructed thus : along 1 the middle the substance, having a width 

 of 3 ft., consisted of chalk rubble ; on either side of the chalk was 

 a deposit of earth, 6 ft. in width ; and outside the earth there was 

 chalk again, for a width of 7 ft. ; outside of this was a trench, 3 ft. 

 wide and 2J ft. deep, sunk into the chalk rock, and filled with 

 earth ; over the trench, and abutting on the chalk, the mound was 

 composed of earth from that point to the outside. The trench was 

 from 10 ft. to 15 ft. within the outermost limit of the barrow; but it 

 did not run round the ends of the mound. Beyond the point above 

 mentioned (57 ft. from the north-east end) the barrow was made 

 up of chalk rubble, with here and there a considerable intermixture 

 of earth, but by no means in regular lines of deposit, as was the 

 case at the north-eastern part. At the extreme south-western end 

 there was what looked very much like a small round barrow super- 

 imposed upon the end of the long mound, and causing it to be at 

 that point rather wider and higher than it would have been had 

 the ordinary form of the barrow been preserved. And, indeed, the 

 interment found at the south-west end appears to countenance the 

 idea that a secondary burial had taken place there, and that this 

 small mound had been raised over it. 



Several holes, sunk below the natural surface, occurred at various 

 points within the barrow, which I will proceed to mention in detail 

 before giving an account of the burials 1 . The holes were all about 

 2 ft. deep, and varied from 1 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 2 in. in diameter ; they 

 contained nothing but earth and stone, and (in two of them) a 

 little charcoal. One was 75ft. east-north-east from the centre; 

 a second 62 ft. east-by-north ; a third 60 ft. east-north-east by 

 north ; a fourth 53 ft. east-by-north ; a fifth 45 ft. east-by-north ; 

 and a sixth 30 ft. east-by-south. 



The barrow had once been planted with trees, which had been 

 stubbed up, and when this was done the workmen came upon 



1 It will be remembered that in the account of the round barrows it was stated that 

 many of them contained holes in which no deposit of a body or of burnt bones was 

 found. The same feature was observed by Sir R. Colt Hoare in the long barrows of 

 Wiltshire, though he does not appear to have observed them in the round barrows. 

 He says, speaking of a long barrow at Gorton, where, at the east end, eight skeletons 

 were met with, 'they had been deposited on the floor of the barrow between two ex- 

 cavations in the natural soil, of an oval form and seven feet apart/ Ancient Wilts, 

 vol. i. p. 102. Dr. Thurnam also found similar holes in some of the long barrows he 

 opened in the south-west of England. 



