By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 161 



Finds, Bronze Age. Small plain perfectly flat celt. Blackmore Museum. 



W.A.M. xxx vii. 129. 

 Socketed looped celt. Blackmore Museum. W.A-M. xxxvii. 135 ; 



Evans' Bronze, 113. 

 Socketed looped spear head, small, on N. side of Tan Hill, 1886. Devizes 



Museum. W.A.M. xxxvii. 141, fig. 



Late Celtic. At Cross Farm below Rybury a Late Celtic inhabited site 

 excavated by B. H. and Mrs. Cunnington 1911. Over 300 flint and 

 50 sarsen hammerstones or mullers found on surface of field, also 

 conical quern. 9 pits found, pottery in great quantity of curious 

 type, no Roman or Roman British, spindle whorls, weaving combs, 

 saddle quern, fragments of crucibles, bones of Bos longifrons, sheep, 

 pig, red deer, roe deer, and horse. Devizes Museum. W.A.M. 

 xxxvii. 526, figs. 



ALLINGTON (PEWSEY VALE). 

 Barrows. 



1. Tan Hill. A Bowl-shaped Barrow S. of Wansdyke and just W. of 



the Fair ground. M. 35 N W. ; not in Smith. 



2. To N. of Wansdyke, on E. side of track to Beckhampton. A very 



low bowl-shaped barrow. This and 3 others in this neighbour- 

 hood, not to be identified, were opened by Dean Merewether in 

 1849. " Two of them contained cists with burnt bones, frag- 

 ments of rude unbaked pottery and bones of animals." O.M. 

 35 NW. ; Smith p. 115. VIII. F. viii. g. ; Proc. Arch. Inst. 

 Salisbury, 100. 

 Earthworks. 



Wansdyke crosses parish at narrowest point N. of Tan Hill. O.M. 



35 NW. 

 Ditch leaves S. side of Wansdyke and turns S.W. on Tan Hill with 



branches. O.M. 35 NW. 

 Allington Down N. of Barrow Allcannings 2, an oblong enclosure. 

 O.M. 35. NW. ? not shown by Smith. 

 Finds, Bronze Age. 



A portion of a gold torque of the late Bronze Age weight 2|ozs. troy 

 found by flint diggers on Allington Down 1844, in possession of 

 the Earl of Ilchester. Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury, p. in. fig. 31 ; 

 W.A.M. xi. 10 ; xxxvi. 435—438,^. 

 Finds, Roman. 



Small bronze Penannular brooch, Devizes Museum. W-A.M. xi. 120. 

 N. of Tan Hill (? what parish) Iron Spear Head, Knife, Awl, &c. 

 Devizes Museum. W.A.M. xxiii. 347. 



ALTON BARNES. 

 Barrows. 



1. Barrow just N. of Alton White Horse, large bowl-shaped, opened, 

 no record. O.M. 35 NW. ; Smith p. 113. XII. H. viii. g. 



