156 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities. 



ALDBOURNE. 

 Barrows. 



[On Sugar Hill, S. of Whitecomb plantation 4 Barrows [1 to 4] in 

 line close together, opened by Canon Greenwell. O.M. 23 NE. ; 

 A. W. II. 37, Stations XL, XII. ; Arch. LII. 45—49. The numbers in 

 Roman numerals are those given by Canon Greenwell.] 



1. [CCLXXVI.] Northernmost of the 4. Bell-shaped, wide ditch, 



60ft. diam., lift. high. In centre a grave 1ft. 8in. long, and 2ft. 

 deep, with burnt bones of adult and small cup, 7 amber beads, 

 and bone pin with perforated head. Above this, on level of 

 ground, many burnt bones and charcoal. On E. side of barrow, 

 2ft. above surface, heap of burnt bones. 



2. [CCLXXVIL] Bell-shaped, grave in centre 2ft. deep with skeleton, 



flint arrowhead, and bronze dagger (Fig. 15). Fragment of 

 greenstone ground axe in body of the mound. Arch. LXL, 119, 

 Fig. 63. 



3. [CCLXXVIIL] Bell-shaped, burnt bones in cist, with bone pin. 



Flint saw, 3 scrapers, and pottery in body of the mound. 



4. [CCLXXIX.] Southernmost of the 4. Bowl-shaped, cist in centre 



1 ft. 4in. deep, with burnt bones with a single sherd of pottery 

 close to them. Above the cist, ljft below the surface, were the 

 bones of young pig over four sarsen stones on the top of the 

 grave. Part of skull and parts of another skeleton on S. side of 

 barrow. Animals bones and flint flakes in the body of the mound. 



5, 6. [CCLXXX.] 100 yds. S.W. of group of 4 barrows are 2 close 

 together. O.M. 23 NE. ; A.W. II. Stations XL, XII. One of 

 these opened by Canon Greenwell, 90ft. diam., 6ft. high. In 

 centre a pile of sarsen stones 20ft. in diam., 5ft. high. In centre 

 under them a heap of burnt bones on surface of chalk with two 

 incense cups (one with cover), of a type only found in Wilts 

 and the adjoining districts (Figs. 16 and 19), fragments of 

 bronze knife and 2 awls, 3 cylindrical notched vitreous beads, 

 2 amber and 1 lignite bead and joint of encrinite, flat ring and 

 pendant of lignite (Figs. 17, 18), shale conical button, 2 arrow- 

 heads, one barbed, the other triangular. Proc. Soc. Ant , 2nd 

 Series, viii., Mb, figs. 



7. [CCLXXXL] f-mile on W. of the group of 4, and 1-mile N.E. of 



Warren Farm, on Sugar Hill. Opened by Canon Greenwell. 

 Cist in centre, with burnt bones and flint flake. O.M. 23 NE. ; 

 A.W. II. Stations XL, XII. ; Arch. LII. 53. 



8. [CCLXXXIL] i-mile N.W. of last, J-mile N. of Warren Farm, 



on Sugar Hill. Opened by Canon Greenwell. In centre a cairn 

 of sarsens without earth, 12ft. diam. and 5ft. high. Under them 

 a cist in the chalk 1ft. 7in. deep, with burnt bones, bronze knife- 

 dagger, and bone pin. Many flint flakes in body of the mound 

 O.M. 23 NE. ; A. W. II. Stations XI , XII. ; Arch. LII. 54. 



