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Barrow " 1 mile from Beckhampton on r. of Devizes Rd." contained 

 an urn of unusual type 6|in. high x 5in. wide at the base, full 

 of burnt bones, p. 108, fig. 5. 

 Barrow "£ mile N. of the last" contained a small plain urn 7in. 

 high near the skull of a very young person ; also a plain bowl- 

 shaped vessel 2Jin. high, pp. 108, 109, figs. 6, 7. 

 Barrow " \\ miles W. of the last." Urn 7in. high, found with 

 crouched skeleton, p. 109, figs. 8, 16. 

 3 cinerary urns from barrows at or near Beckhampton, of which no 



details are known, in Devizes Museum. Cat. II. x6, x7, x8. 

 In a barrow S. of Silbury was found " a bit of gold (I suppose the 

 covering of a button, or the like, such as that I dug up at Stone- 

 henge), and many sharp bits of iron." Stukeley Abury, 45. 

 2 fine cin. urns, probably from barrows near W. Kennet, of which there 



is no record, now in Devizes Museum. Mr. Butler, of Kennet. 

 In a barrow " to the S.E. of Kennet (? in what parish) were 12 skeletons 

 with their feet towards the centre, in which was a " Grape Cup." 

 Proc. Arch. Inst., Salisbury p. 108, fig. 2 ; Smith p. 145. 



BEegalithic. 



The Circles. A great roughly circular ditch, the earth from which is 

 thrown up in an irregular bank on the outside, encloses an area of 

 28j acres, with a diameter of from 1170ft. to 1260ft. Ditch and 

 vallum remain for about f of the circuit, the section near the Church 

 and Manor House having been destroyed. The vallum had a cir- 

 cumference of 4442ft., and at the highest point was about 21ft. 

 high above the level. Round the inner edge of the ditch ran, 

 according to Stukeley, who carefully surveyed the whole monument 

 in 1724, an outer circle of 100 stones, placed about 27ft. apart. 

 Inside this were two smaller circles, consisting each, according to 

 Stukeley, of 30 stones, with, as he believed, in each case an inner 

 concentric circle of 12 stones. These inner circles of the northern 

 and southern " Temples," however, are not clearly to be made out 

 from Aubrey's sketch made in 1663, and their existence has been 

 denied by the Rev- W. C. Lukis (Proc. Soc. Ant., ix., 141) and others. 

 In the centre of the northern circle was a " cove " facing N.E. formed 

 of three very large stones, of which two are still standing, 17ft. and 

 14ft. 7in. high respectively. The third, 21ft. in length, fell and was 

 broken up in 1713. In the centre of the southern circle stood, says 

 Stukeley, a single stone, " The Obelisk," of a circular form at base, 

 21ft. long by 8ft. 9in. diam. This has entirely disappeared, it is 

 not noticed by Aubrey in his survey of 1663, but evident signs of its 

 former existence and destruction were found by the Rev. A. C. Smith 

 in 1 865 ( W.A. M. x., 212). Between the southern circle and the outer 

 circle in a line with the centres of the N. and S. circles, stood in 

 Stukeley's time a single stone with a hole wrought in it, which he 

 called the " Ring Stone." This no longer exists. Of the outer circle 

 there are visible now 10 standing and 8 prostrate stones, of the 



