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Finds, Bronze Age. 



Bronze celt found near Church. Stukeley, Abury 27. 



Bronze palstave, small and of unusual form, Devizes Museum. Cat. II. 



B 23 ; W.A.M. i. 59 ; xxxi. 269. 

 Bronze tanged chisel with broad blade. J. W. Brooke Coll. Reliquari/ 



xiv. 244, jfy. 

 Bronze awl, Beckhampton. Evans' Bronze 190. 

 Bronze awl, Kennet. Devizes Museum Cat. II. B 12a. 

 2 large bronze awls, and part of a bevelled knife blade, with a grooved 



flat whetstone, found " 1 mile E. of Wansdyke." Devizes Museum 



Cat. II. B 9— B 9 b ; W.A.M. xv. 139. (? what parish.) 

 Bronze tanged razor and very narrow chisel. Beckhampton Down. 



Devizes Museum Cat. II. B 8, B 14 ; Reliquary xiv. 245, 247 fiy. 

 Bronze socketed looped spearhead. From flint-diggings on down S. W. 



of Beckhampton. Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury 110, Fig. 20. Devizes 



Museum Cat. II. B 6 

 Cin. urn, 6|in. high, found in W. side of Barrow 15 Avebury, no 



details of find. Devizes Museum Cat. II. xQfig. ; W.A.M. i., 62. 



•ate Celtic. 



Dwelling pit, Beckhampton Down, on trackway leading from Mr. 

 Wentworth's farm house to the farm buildings on the down (? in 

 Avebury or Bishops Cannings parish). Double dwelling pit opened 

 by H. Cunnington 1884. Two pits intersecting, 5ft. 8in. deep, X 5ft. 

 diam. and 4ft. 8in. deep X 4ft. diam. Two broken cooking pots found 

 resting on 3 stones in ashes of the hearth, chalk loom weight, flint 

 mullers, spindle whorl, 6 sling bullets of burnt clay, iron nails, 

 fragments of pottery , bones of sheep, ox, and rabbit. Devizes Museum 

 Cat. II. 797—805; W.A.M. xxiii. 65—68. 



Dwelling pit near top of "Waden Hill 117 yds. E. of new pond 1912, 

 opened B. H. Cunnington. Animals' bones, pottery sherds, charcoal, 

 muller, and burnt flints. W.A.M. xxxviii., 14. 



Bronze bow brooch " La Tene I." type," near Avebury," 1876. British 

 Museum. Guide to Early Iron Age, 1 00, fig. ; Pitt Rivers Excavations 

 II. Ill, fig. W.A.M. xxxv. 398, 399,./?.?. 3. A second example of the 

 same type, W. Kennet, 1897, J. W. Brooke Coll. ; a third from near 

 Silbury Hill, Devizes Museum, Cat. II. 304; Reliquary xiv. 95, figs. 

 5, 7 ; W.A.M. xxxv. 398, 400, figs. 4, 15. 



Part of bronze chape of sword sheath, Beckhampton 1912. W.A.M. 

 xxxviii. Wlfig. 2. 



idgeway running along the crest of Hackpen Hill forms the whole E. 

 boundary of parish. O.M. 28 SW. ; A. W. II. 46. 



oman. 



The line of the Roman Rd. Bath to Cunetio forms S. boundary of 

 parish at S.W. corner for 1 mile as far as Beckhampton and Devizes 

 Rd. E. of this road a section of the raised way pointing to Silbury 

 is well seen, the rest is lost in ploughed lands. To decide whether 

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