A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE 



EAST LOCKINGE. There are two barrows at the south end of East 

 Lockinge parish, close to the Ridge-way. 



MARCHAM. There is a barrow at Garford in . this parish, on 

 ' Barrow Hill ' between the two branches of the Ock. 1 



MOULSFORD. There is a circular barrow on Moulsford Down to 

 the east of Lingley Knob. It is doubtful whether this is ' the fine 

 circular barrow surrounded by a fosse' mentioned by Hewitt as being at 

 the corner of Unhill Wood, for there is no trench round it at the 

 present time.* 



NEWBURY. There are three barrows on Wash Common, south of 

 Newbury, on the site of the first Battle of Newbury. 



EAST SHEFFORD. There was formerly a mound or barrow in the 

 garden of the old Rectory, which was removed some years ago, when 

 nothing of interest was found. It is said that Hug's ditch terminated 

 here. 



WEST SHEFFORD. Near Coldridge Wood, to the south of the 

 village, is a round barrow 95 feet in diameter. It was opened in the 

 early part of the nineteenth century by a farmer, who found ashes, 

 bones and some old sherds. 



Some years later it was carefully explored. Fragments of pottery 

 and the bones of animals were found scattered through the mound. 

 The base of a cinerary urn with some ashes attached to it was also 

 discovered, beside some fragments of human bones, an ' incense cup,' a 

 bone needle, and a number of flint implements. 3 



SPARSHOLT. ; There is a barrow on the top of the hill to the east 

 of Uffington Castle, which was opened in 1852, when a number of 

 skeletons were found, with marks of verdigris between their teeth. 



There are three more on Sparsholt Down, and one of these, it 

 seems, was opened by Canon Greenwell, though he describes it as being 

 in Childrey parish. 



The barrow had evidently been opened before, as fragments of a 

 cinerary urn and the burnt bones it had contained were found scattered 

 through the mound. A single round bead of lignite, one of a necklace, 

 was also found. 



There are two more barrows on Pit Down.* 



SPEEN. ;A round barrow formerly stood by the river Kennet on 

 Speen Moor, surrounded by several concentric ridges. This was removed 

 in the eighteenth century, when the workmen discovered an urn, which 

 was broken by the peat spade." 



On the hill above Bagnor, by the side of an ancient trackway, is 

 what appears to be the remains of a tumulus, known as the ' Mount.' 



STRATFIELD MORTIMER. To the north of the road leading to 

 Ufton, and not far from the entrenchment already described, are two 



1 Cooper-King, Hist. Berks, 32. 

 * Hewitt, Hundr. of Compton, 115. 



3 Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, i. 130-1. 



4 Ibid. 176, 182. Arch. lii. 64, 65. 



8 Phil. Trans. 1. pt. i. 109-115. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 123, 138. 



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