By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 183 



bottom ll^ft. to 17ft. wide. The absence of metal, and the presence 

 of deer horn picks, shoulder blades of ox possibly used as shovels, 

 and a flint knife of Neolithic type on the floor of the ditch, together 

 •with the fact that pottery similar to that found in the chamber of the 

 W. Kennet Long Barrow was found in the filling of the ditch, points 

 to the end of the Stone Age as the probable period of the work. 

 W.A.M. xxxvi. 345 ; xxxvii. 477. 

 For Bibliography of Stonehenge and Avebury see W.A.M. xxxii. 1. 



Remains of a stone circle about 1 mile S. of Silbury close to parish 

 boundary. Rev. A. C. Smith, 1877, uncovered 22 small stones buried 

 underground forming part of this oblong or circle, 261ft. X 216ft. 

 Stukeley, Abury p. 46, mentions this circle. " Upon the heath south 

 of Silbury Hill was a very large oblong work like a long barrow, made 

 only of stones pitch'd in the ground, no tumulus." The stones had 

 been removed, he says, 14 years before. O.M. 28 SW. ; A. W. II. 96 ; 

 Smith p. 177 plan, XII. G. VII. a ; W.A.M. xvii. 253; xix. 56, plan 160. 



Stone circle formerly existed at Wayden's Penning on opposite side of 

 road 283 yds. E. of the 11 stones of the Kennet Avenue. One stone 

 by the hedge only now remains. In 1840 R. Falkner found two prostrate 

 and saw 9 holes from which others had been taken. Diameter cir. 

 120ft. O.M. 28 S W. ; W.A.M. iv. 345 ; xix. 55 ; Smith p. 147, XI. G. V. 

 g,plan;A.W. II. 94. 



On the down E. of Avebury, Smith, p. 150, XL H. V. n, notes several 

 sarsen stones, consisting of one cap-stone on three very small sup- 

 porters, surrounded by a very low mound of earth ; in all probability 

 a burial place or diminutive cromlech." 



Earthworks. 



On slope of Hackpen E. of Kennet Avenue and just N.W. of Barrow 30 

 an oblong enclosure 100 yds. X 80 yds. with inner enclosure in S.W. 

 corner. Banks 2ft. high. No evidence of occupation found by Hoare. 

 O.M. 28 S W. ; Stukeley Abury 48 ; Smith p. 148 XL, H. V. h. ; Proc. 

 Arch. Inst. Salisbury p. 102, No. v. fig.; A.W. II. 94. 



Windmill Hill, circular trench enclosing top of hill and many barrows 

 (partly in Winterbourne Monkton). O.M. 28 NW. ; Stukeley Abury 

 45 ; A. W. II. 95. 



Silbury Hill. I mile S. of Avebury. Largest artificial mound in 

 England, 130ft. high, 552ft. diam. at base, 104ft. diam. at top, and 

 covers area of 5 acres 1192 yds. {Smith 151.) In 1777 the Duke 

 of Northumberland and Col. Drax sunk a shaft from top to original 

 level ; in 1849 the Arch. Institute. drove a tunnel on the S. side along 

 the original level to the centre and round the centre. Nothing found 

 except a few bones of ox or deer, and pieces of twisted grass string. 

 {Proc.' Arch. Inst., Salisbury 297). The Roman Rd., Bath to Cunetio, 

 ran immediately S. of Silbury Hill, and Stuke.ley who saw its course 

 here before it was obliterated says it was purposely deflected from 

 the straight to avoid the hill. If it had kept on a straight course it 



