202 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities. 



82, 83. Just on W. side of plantation near Ed., 2 wide flat barrows 

 nearly ploughed down. O.M. 27 SE. ; Smith pp. 104, 105, VII. I 

 E. VI. i,j. 



Inside the plantations at Beckhampton Buildings, 4 barrows 

 O.M. 27 SE. ; Smith pp. 105, 106, VII. E. VI. q, r, s, I. 



84 (q). Small, nearly ploughed down. 



85 (r). Large bowl-shaped, apparently not opened. 



86 (s). Wide low bowl -shaped. 



87 (I). Low, irregular, may not be a barrow. 



88. On Avebury boundary, 1 mile S. W. of Beckhampton, on the 

 training course, on top of hill, a peculiar barrow, flat, depressed 

 in centre, with bank, ditch, and ridge all round. Not opened. 

 O.M. 28 SW. ; Smith p. 106. VII. E. VI. 4. 



89. A very large high, bell-shaped barrow, just to W. of it, opened, 

 no record. O.M. 28 SW. ; Smith p. 106 VII. F. VI. a. 



Erratum p. 197. Barrow 21 for " very much ploughed down " read " has 



never been ploughed." M.E.C. 



For other barrows formerly in Bishop's Cannings see Roundway. 



Earthworks. 



Wansdyke runs across the parish from Morgan's Hill, crosses Devizes 

 Road at Shepherd's Shore and on to Tan Hill, everywhere a strong 

 rampart to S. and ditch to N. and a smaller bank on the N. edge of 

 the ditch. Pitt Rivers in 1889 cut two sections through it, one on j 

 Morgan's Hill near Old Shepherd's Shore, one at Brown's Barn S. of 

 Easton Down. Iron knife, nail, cleat, clay sling pellet, and fragments 

 of bead rim and Samian pottery found on original surface under the 

 rampart proved it to be of late Roman or post Roman date. Modeis 

 of sections and objects found in Farnham Museum. 



At Brown's Barn a rectangular earthwork adjoins N. side of Wandyke, 

 its ditch passing under the mound on the N. side of Wansdyke, but 

 no sign was found of it on S. side of Wansdyke. O.M. 34 NE. ; 

 A. W. II. 29 ; Pitt Rivers' Excavations, III. 245 — 276, plans ; Smith \ 

 VIII. E. VIII. f. 



Large rectangular enclosure on Morgan's Hill N.of Wansdyke, excavated i 

 by B. H. Cunnington 1909. Probably medieval. O.M. 27 SE. : 

 iv.A.M. xxxvi. 590 ; Smith IV. C. VII. d. ; A. W. II. 97. 



Large rectangular enclosure at the rifle range S. of Morgan's Hill, W 

 of Blacklands to Cannings Rd, used to be called " Breach Barton. 

 Roman coins said to have been found in the bank. ? Medieval. O.il- 

 34 NW, ; Smith IV. B. VIII. d. 



Large square enclosure £ mile N. of Wansdyke on Horton Down, 200ft. 

 each way with rampart 4ft. high and ditch outside entrances on each 

 side, ramparts highest at the corners, strong. O.M. 34 NW. ; Smithy, 

 112, VIII. E. VII. a. ; Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury 101 (No. II.). 



