By Lt.-Col. W. Hcavley, F.S.A. 621 



I afterwards made a cutting at the opposite end of the long 

 mound but nothing occurred here beyond several fragments of 

 coarse pottery with dotted Vandyke pattern. 



Barrows 6 and 7. Brigmerston. 



The next are two barrows close to the last-mentioned one and 

 occur in a long fir belt north-west of it ; both being very much 

 destroyed by rabbits. No. 6 contained nothing, and had evidently 

 been explored before ; and the other — the larger of the two (No. 7) 

 seemed also to have been disturbed, but a rectangular cist at the 

 bottom had escaped observation. It was cut in the solid chalk 

 and contained the body of an adult, buried reclining on the left 

 side with knees bent upwards and head inclining towards them in 

 an easy position. The skull was similar to that found in No. 1 

 Bui ford Barrow, and had the excessive bony protuberances over 

 the eyes : the entire frontal bone being extremely massive and low. 

 This skull still exists and is at Stockton House, Wilts, with other 

 remains of these barrows, including a pot, probably a food vessel, 

 which was found with this skeleton. The cist measurements in 

 this case were 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, and 3 feet deep. 



Barrow 8. 1 Ablington. 



Following this I excavated a barrow on Syrencot Down to the 

 west of the fir belt north of Silk Hill. This was rather a small 

 barrow, and early in the digging cremated remains were come upon 

 in a bowl-shaped recess in the loose chalk composing the barrow. 

 A portion of a lower human jaw had escaped burning sufficiently 

 to show that it had belonged to a person of about 20, as the per- 

 manent molars were unabraded and the third molars in embryo 

 state. Two feet below this a cist was come upon excavated in the 

 solid chalk 8 feet long, 3 feet 9 inches wide, and 4 feet deep. It 

 •contained the skeleton of an adult buried at full length, perhaps 

 about the age of 30, to judge by the teeth. This person must 



1 Barrows 8, 9, together with a., b., c, which are close to them, and 10, 

 are in Figheldean parish, just north of the line of Brigmerston Firs, along 

 which the parish boundary runs. Ordnance 6in. Survey, Sheet XLVIII 



