By Lt.-Col. W. Haivley, F.S.A. 617 



which plainly showed the marks of a pointed pick and also of a 

 broad-edged implement; so possibly a deer-horn pick and a flint 

 pick were used. On the chalk bottom rested the skeleton of a 

 man of very large frame, placed on his left side with the legs bent 

 up, but not forcibly contracted, in fact, in much the same position 

 as the man might have died in. Just in front of the body, where 

 the hands rested, was the head of a perforated axe-hammer (Fig. 5) 

 (now in the British Museum). The substance was a hard siliceous 

 sandstone, with iron, of a dark reddish-brown colour : 5| inches 

 long : of long oval shape, one end wedge-shaped vertically, and 

 the other end slightly tapering to round, both ends showing dis- 

 integration of the surface, perhaps from former use. The sides 

 on which the hole for the handle occurred were ground concave 

 and the other sides were convex. The position of the handle was 

 clearly discernible by a line of brown dust, and the perforation in 

 the head contained a bone wedge, which unfortunately soon perished 

 as dust. 



The skull, which was brachycephalic, had exceedingly heavy 

 protuberances of bone round the upper portion of the eye cavities. 

 This skull unfortunately was not preserved but returned to the 

 barrow with the rest of the remains. 



This barrow was no doubt a Bronze Age one, the absence of 

 bronze being no hindrance to this assumption, and perhaps it may 

 be attributed to Period I. of Montelius. 1 



Before restoring the barrow a cutting was made on the east side 

 of the heading where the soil seemed irregular, and a fine urn was 

 come upon 3 feet below the turf, placed mouth downwards. It 

 contained burnt bones (Fig. 1), but no object was included with 

 them. It measured 14J inches in height, the diameter at top 

 being 12 inches, and at the base 7 inches, it was very regular in 

 shape for a hand-made vessel, and having been well fired it had not 

 suffered decay. There was no ornamentation beyond a raised line 

 about 4 inches below the rim, which, on opposite sides, was curved 

 to represent handles. This was evidently a secondary interment 

 of a later period of the Bronze Age than the primary one in the 

 cist. This urn is now in the Blackmore Museum, at Salisbury. 

 l Archceologia,, lxi., 100. 



