By the Rev. E. H. Qoddard. 189 



Palaeolithic. At Knowle Farm Gravel Pit between Marlborough— 



Hungerford Kd. at 5 miles from Marlborough, and the Farm, O.M. 



29 SE., great numbers of fine flint implements. First found by S. B. 



Dixon 1901. J. W. Brooke, H. G. O. Kendall, A. I). Passmore. 



Devizes Museum Gat. II. 2. 

 W. Cunnington and S. B. Dixon on gloss and glacial scratches, W.A.M. 



xxxiii. 131. 

 H. G. O. Kendall on geology and types of implement, W.A.M. xxxiv. 



299 ; on microliths in situ, Man viii., 103 ; W.A.M. xxxv. 597. 



Heolithic. Flint scrapers, knives, fabricator, Knowle Farm, Chisbury, 

 &c. Devizes Museum. W.A.M. xxxiii. 91. 

 Ground flint celt, surface, Knowle Farm Pit, 1912, B. H. Cunnington. 



Bronze Age. Small socketed unlooped spearhead, surface at Knowle 

 Farm Pit, 1913. Devizes Museum. 



Roman. Coins found 1854 W.A.M. I. 352 ; II. 35. 



BEECHINGSTOKE. 

 Barrows. 



1. Hatfield Barrow. Height 22jft. Opened by Hoare 1809. A.W. 

 II. 4, plan. Fragments of burnt bones, charcoal, &c, found, and 

 W. Cunnington believed it to be sepulchral. Hoare thought it a 

 "Hill altar " with earth circle round it. Around the barrow is an 

 irregularly circular intrenchment with bank outside ditch — as at 

 Avebury. Area 51 acres. Area shown in O.M. 41 NW. 



[la]. A smaller barrow 1 ( Ring Barrow ?) ; diam. 198ft. with circular 

 vallum slightly raised and interior rising to a low apex was also 

 enclosed' in the area. No marks of interment found, much defaced 

 by plough in Hoare's time, now destroyed. Hatfield Barrow also 

 entirely removed before 1818. A.W. II. 4, plan, 5 — 7. Under part 

 of the outside bank quantities of stags' horns and bones found. 

 Outside bank, | of which is destroyed, sbown in O.M. 41 NW., close 

 to village of Marden but in Beechingstoke parish. 



Ridgeway. Broad Street marks course of Ridgeway across Pewsey Vale. 

 O.M. 41 NW.; A.W. II. 8. 



BEMEETON. 



Barrows. A large barrow S. of line of Roman Rd. and just W. of Salisbury 

 — Devizes Rd. apparently in Bemerton, shown in A.W. I. Station V. 

 South; not in O.M. 66 NW. 



Palaeolithic. Flint implements from the river gravel first found by Dr. 

 H. P. Blackmore 1863. Considerable number of flint implements 

 afterwards found. Blackmore <fe Devizes Museums. Cat. II. p. 4 ; 

 W.A.M. xxii. 117. 



Finds, Neolithic. 1 long rough and 2 fine chipped flint celts. Blackmore 

 Museum. Evans' Stone 62. 



