Bronze Age BarrovnH on Am Hill, War)/dnster. 541. 



measuring 12iii. x 7|iii., and from |in. to Jin. in thickness. In 

 one corner there is a hole ahoiit the size of an ordinary lead pencil, 

 neatly countersunk. Several of th(i other stones have simihir holes 

 bored through them. There seem to have been about seven or 

 eight of these *' tiles," but as they were broken up it is impossible 

 to speak with certainty. There is no doubt that they were 

 actually found in the barrow as described, the account of their 

 discovery being quite clear and straightforward. It has been 

 suggested that these stones may have originally formed a cist that 

 contained another burnt interment, evidence of which might 

 easily have been overlooked by the inexperienced workmen. It 



. has also been suggested that possibly the holes were intended to 



! pass thongs through to tie the stones together to help in the 



: formation of the cist. 



Later (in January, 1912,) a second urn (Fig. 2), also containing 



, a burnt interment, was found in the south-western fringe of the 

 mound. 



It is sai'd to have been standing upright, ami to have been 

 iiicom[)lete when found, but this may have been due to rabbits 

 scratching out some loose fragments. The urn is ll^in. high, the 

 rim is Sin. and the base 5^in. in diameter, the ornamented border 



i being 2 Jin. in depth. The ornament consists of a series of diagonal 

 lines forming a double herring-bone pattern. Two inches below 

 !the ornamented border there is a slight shoulder, the space between 

 'the shoulder and the border having a series of w^edge-shaped in- 

 dentations ; these indentations do not seem to be arranged in any 

 particular order, ])ut as this part of the urn is in a very bad state 

 |of preservation many of them have been obliterated. The vessel 

 is altogether more roughly made than the larger urn, and the ware 

 is of very inferior (piality, being much more frialilc. The paste 

 does not seem to have l)een nuxtnl with either broken Hint or 

 vegetable matter as was the cast^ in the lai'gcr urn. 



The two urns (partly r(istored), the whetstone, and sevtu'al of 

 the perforate(l stone "tihvs" are now in tho Society's Museum 

 at Devizes, bv pcrniissiDn of i1h> ]\I;n<iut's.s of llaili, on \vh(».se 

 lU'optMly till' burrows on .\rii Hill arc situafcd. 



