306 The Discovery of a Chamber in the Long Barrow at Lanhill. 



the outside it is a light brown in colour, shading to buff, and the 

 surface is smooth, as though it had been tooled. The colour of the 

 inner side and of the paste itself is a brownish black. 



It is interesting that in four instances Dr. Thurnam mentions 

 that pottery found in a long barrow was mixed with crushed shells, 

 and not, as is more usual in Bronze Age ware, with pounded flint 

 or quartz. It occurred in the chambered barrows of Eodmarton 

 and Nether Swell, in Glos., and in the unchambered barrows at Nor- 

 ton Bavant and Tinhead, in Wilts. No doubt locality would to a 

 great extent determine the materials used in the manufacture of the 

 wares, and fossil shells may have been easily obtained at Lanhill 

 and in the three first-mentioned cases, but at Tinhead, on Salisbury 

 Plain, chalk or flint would seem more likely to be used. 



Two small flint flakes, a small piece of burnt flint, a nodule of 

 iron stone, some pebbles and gravel flints, such as may be found 

 locally on the surface, were the only other objects found. These 

 were all on the floor of the barrow, either in the chamber or just 

 outside it. 



Other Excavations. 



The edges of two large stones were noticed above the turf near 

 the eastern end of the mound. It was not at the time recognised 

 that these were part of the cist opened by Dr. Thurnam in 1855 ; 

 his description not being very definite. But on excavating at 

 this spot it was made clear that this was the eastern cist 

 opened by him, in which he found a few scattered fragments 

 of human bones. The northern of the two parallel stones 

 described by him seems to have been broken, and the larger part 

 of it put back into the cist leaning up against the western side 

 of the stone which he described as fomiing the cross bar of the 

 letter " H." Nothing was found except one finger bone among 

 the stones filling in the cist. This leaning stone has now (1909) 

 been taken and used as a covering or roofing stone for the better 

 preservation of the southern chamber. 



Dr. Thurnam seems to have excavated at four different places 

 in the barrow. But as he made no plan or exact measurement it 



