620 Notes on Barrows in South Wilts. 



for some months about that time, I reluctantly had to begin the 

 restoration of the barrow. This I regretted, as it is quite possible 

 that objects may exist on the north-west side, away from the 

 cremation, and about two-thirds of this barrow still remain un- 

 explored. 



Barrow 4. Bulford. 



A small shallow barrow exists west of No. 3. I found, upon 

 opening it, that it was ruinous from a former opening, and con- 

 tained nothing. 



Barrow 5. 3 Brigmekston. 



The next barrow is not in the order excavated, but I am taking 

 them westward, and will call it No. 5. It presented a long oval 

 shape, due, I consider, to two small contiguous barrows being 

 levelled by rabbits and so brought together. 



My attention was drawn to it by finding the remains of three 

 small urns of honey-pot shape, mouths downwards, protruding from 

 the earth side by side. One was rather smaller than the other 

 two, and they may have been about 7 or 8 inches high, perhaps 

 more, but the higher portions had quite disappeared, exposing the 

 contents of cremated bones with no object amongst them. 



Afterwards I cut a trench into the mound on the north-west' 

 side, and about the centre of it on the solid chalk level I came 

 upon a bowl-shaped recess cut in it, about 2 feet across and con- 

 taining the burnt bones of a cremation, amongst which the only 

 object was a bone bead. 



The bottom of the recess, however, was very interesting, as it 

 bore the impress of a cloth that the burnt bones had evidently 

 been collected and placed in. I did my best to preserve a portion 

 of this, but it was in such a loose powdery state that it was im- 

 possible. If ever again such an impression is come upon I will 

 endeavour to take a cast of it in plaster, but this did not occur to 

 me at that time. The cloth was rather coarse, and three or perbaps 

 four of its strands would go to a quarter-inch. 



3 Barrow 5 is just on the south side of the line of Brigmerston Firs, and 

 in Milston parish. Barrows 6 and 7, which are close to it, are actually on 

 the parish boundary line separating Milston and Figheldean. 



