By Lt. Col. W. Haivley, F.S.A. 625 



Barrows 13, 14, 15. 1 The Bustard. 



About half-a-mile east of the "Bustard," an old hostelry on the 

 Devizes Boad, there is marked on the map a double concentric 

 circular earthwork, close to which were three barrows almost 

 completely ruined by rabbits, and it had been decided to dig these 

 entirely out and destroy them. One of these barrows I was told 

 had been dug into by a Colonel Good, who once resided at Shrewton, 

 and perhaps he may have opened the others, as they were all much 

 in ruin. One contained nothing*; the second contained a broken 

 urn, also a bowl-shaped depression in the solid chalk, with cremated 

 bones but no objects ; the third also contained a broken urn, but 

 nothing else. The urn fragments were all present in both instances, 

 so I was able to restore the urns, and they are now in the Black- 

 more Museum, at Salisbury (Figs. 2 and 3). I am forgetting to say 

 that bones of un burnt bodies were found dispersed amongst the 

 earth of all three barrows, but neither of them contained a chalk 

 cut cist. 



Barrow 16. Figheldean. 



The last barrow I opened in this neighbourhood is one on the 

 high ground one-quarter-of-a-mile south-west of Alton ParvaFarm, 

 in Figheldean, near the village, on land which had been cultivated 

 for a long time, and the barrow was ploughed nearly level with 

 the surrounding soil. A few feet from the top brought us to the 

 original surface, where a rectangular cist was come upon about at 

 the centre of the mound. This cist measured 7 feet 6 inches long, 

 2 feet 6 inches wide, and 4|- feet deep. There were no remains 

 over the top of it and it was filled with loose chalk containing 

 nothing. At the bottom rested a skeleton laid on the left side, 

 slightly extended but with the lower limbs bent; in fact in a 

 natural position, such as the person might have died in. At the 

 foot were crushed remains of a pot, coarse, brown, and unorna- 

 mented, perhaps about 7 or 8 inches high. In front of the body, 



1 These three barrows are in the extreme corner of Shrewton parish, close 

 to the Figheldean boundary, which cuts through the adjoining circular 

 double-ringed earthwork. Ordnance 6in. Survey, Sheet LIV. 

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