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would have passed under the hill. In 1867 excavations were made 

 to settle its real course — and the road was found at a distance of 

 30 yds. to the S. of the base of the hill. The two ditches of the 

 road 18ft. apart were found. {Smith 161 ; W.A.M. xi. 113.) The 

 road was traced for 477 yds. here by 8 sections. This seemed to prove 

 that the road was deflected from the straight here to avoid the already 

 existing hill.* Stukeley records finding of skeleton with iron " bridle '' 

 and knife on top near surface 1723. Stukeley, Abury ; A.W. II. 79. 

 In 1886 A. C. Pass sunk 10 shafts round N. & W. sides of base of hill 

 and showed that chalk had been dug out for a distance on the 1ST. of 

 100ft. round the base, and for 300ft. or more on the W. to a general 

 depth of 15ft.increased immediately at the base of the hill to21ft.below 

 the present surface, the whole of which has been filled up by white 

 chalky clay alluvium. The hill was therefore surrounded by water ex- 

 cept on S. side. In one shaft near base of hill on W. side, at depth of 

 9ft. from surface and 5ft. from the bottom a layer of black earth with 

 charcoal, burnt flints, bones of ox, deer, pig, and dog, flint flakes, and 

 a worked flint knife were found, showing that ditch had silted up 

 5ft. before flint-using people (probably of Bronze Age, said Sir John 

 Evans) left their rubbish on the surface. This is the most important 

 evidence at present available as to the age of the hill. Objects found 

 are in Devizes Museum. ( WA.M. xxiii. 245.) 

 Finds, Neolithic. 



Windmill Hill (partly in Monkton) is probably the most prolific site in 

 Wiltshire. Great numbers of flint implements are found upon the 

 surface, all of white porcelain-like flint. Numbers of cores occur, 

 and it is doubtless the site of a flint factory. Scrapers and fabrica- 

 tors of beautiful make are very abundant, and many fine arrowheads 

 have been found, of which 13 are in Mr. J. W. Brooke's collection, 

 tanged and barbed, oval, delicately-made thin leaf-shaped, and 

 triangular without barbs, as well as mullers and hammerstones. 

 Flakes and knives also occur frequently. The most remarkable 

 objects found here, however, are the ground flint celts, almost all in 

 a fragmentary condition, the fragments often re-chipped to an edge, 

 or used as hammerstones. Numbers of these exist in the collections 

 of Messrs. J. E. Pritchard, J. W. Brooke, A. D. Passmore, Eev. H. 

 G. O. Kendall, Taunton and Devizes Museums, Cat. II., 27, 43—49, 

 51_58; W.A.M., xix., 99, 100 ; xxx., 371 ; xxxvii., 627, 628. 



Broken quartzite pebble perforated hammerstone. Devizes Museum 

 Cat. II., 21. 



Ground greenstone celt found "near Avebury." Canterbury Museum. 



Roughly-chipped flint celt, 1899, Devizes Museum, and a good barbed 

 arrowhead in private hands, both from W. Kennet. 



Fine large chipped celt and a fragment of another, 1910. J. W. Brooke 

 coll. 



On ploughed fields about W. Kennet, flint flakes, scrapers, &c, are fairly 

 numerous, Rev. H. G. O. Kendall. A partially polished celt, 

 scrapers, &c, from the field containing the stones of the Kennet 

 Avenue, Mrs. H. St. G. Gray, 1911. 



