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Stukeley says this hill " Windmill Hill," or " Weedon Hill," was 

 in his day crowned. At the southern end of the hill he says the 

 Roman Rd. passed over a disc barrow. Stukeley Abury 45 ; 

 Smith p. 145. XL G. V. d. ; W. A.M. xxxviii. 12 ; not in A.W.ox 

 O.M. 28 SW. 



21. To E. of Kennet Rd., at Wayden's Penning, \ mile from Avebury, 



close to site of stone circle, a very low barrow, not opened. O.M. 

 28 SW. ; Smith p. 148 XI. G. V. h. 



22. W. Kennet Long Barrow, i mile SE. of Silbury. O.M. 28 SW. 



Smith XL G. VI. b. See Appendix Long Barrows. 



23. Kennet or Overton Hill, S. of Bath Road and W. of Ridgeway. 



A low ploughed-down barrow in Mill Field close to the concen- 

 tric stone circles known as " The Sanctuary." It is possibly the 

 base of the barrow said by Stukeley to have been levelled in 

 1720, when a skeleton, with several large amber beads and glass 

 beads, within a bed of great stones forming a kind of arch was 

 found. Opened by Thurnam 1854, it produced iron nails, &c, 

 but no interment. Possibly the site of a windmill. Shown in 

 O.M. 28 SW. as site of tumulus ; W.A.M. vi. 327 ; Stukeley 

 Abury 44 ; Smith p. 169. XL H. VI. 1. ; A. W. ii. PI. x. 

 On the same hill N. of the Bath Rd. and W. of Ridgeway, a gcoup of 

 barrows (24-30) NE. of W. Kennet. O.M. 28 SW. ; A.W. 

 II. Stations xi. and xii. 



24 (a). A low wide ploughed-down barrow opened 1882 by C. E. 



Ponting, in centre a circular grave 2|ft. deep and 3£ft. in diam. 

 and partially walled with sarsen stones, contained a contracted 

 skeleton, with which were the skeleton of some small animal 

 and an enormous number of bones of frogs or toads, worked 

 flints and " a singular piece of wood in the form of a knife." 

 The grave was covered with 3 flat sarsens, and over it was a 

 heap of sarsen stones 24ft. in diam. At 6ft. from the base of 

 this cairn was a double continuous row of very large sarsen 

 stones, some weighing several tons. A skeleton was found in 

 the upper part of the cairn with a rude vessel, intended doubtless 

 as a drinking cup. Objects at Devizes Museum. W.A.M. xx. 

 342 ; A. W. ii. PI. x. ; Smith p. 163. XI. H. VI. a. 



25 (b). On S. side of the last a very large wide barrow, 4ft. 4in. high, 



much ploughed down, opened 1882 by W. and H. Cunnington. 

 Two interments of burnt bones in circular cists about 1ft. deep, 

 and mixed with ashes, were found. A number of flint flakes 

 lying together and apparently made at the time the barrow was 

 formed, a flint scraper and a flint " saw " were found, with frag- 

 ments of drinking cup and urn. It is doubtful whether the 

 primary interment was discovered. O.M. 28 SW. ; W.A.M. xx. 

 345 ; Smith p. 164, XI. H. VI. b. 



26 (m). On N. side of (a), a large and high bell barrow with ditch, 



perhaps opened by Thurnam, who found nothing but a frag- 

 ment of deer's horn. A bushel of burnt ashes had been previously 



