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N. W. of the last on the same down on E. side of training course a cluster 

 of square, circular, and oblong enclosures adjoining each other, a large 

 sarsen in the most northern circle. Banks and ditches in places of 

 large size. O.M. 34 NE. ; Smith VIII. E. VII. b. 



N.W. of these again on W. side of training course and track from 

 Beckhampton buildings scattered over the down are five or six similar 

 enclosures. O.M. 27 SE. ; Smith p. 112, VIII. E., VII. c, d, k, 1 ; Proc. 

 Arch. Inst. Salisbury 101 (No. III). Smith remarks that these en- 

 closures are more frequent on this down than anywhere else. 



On Bishops Cannings Down S.E. of barrows (63, 64) and N. of 

 Wansdyke, Smith notes that the flat top of Roughridge Hill is en- 

 closed by bank and ditch. A cattle pen or camp 1 O.M. 34 NE. ; 

 Smith p. Ill, VIII. D. VII. v. 



Hut circles. At Old Shepherd's Shore where Old Bath Rd. cuts 

 Wansdyke, just on N. side of the Dyke between old road and angle 

 where the Dyke turns VV. 22 ring mounds about 17 — 20ft. diam., all 

 close together except one 60 yds. to N., like hut circles. Only rings 

 of turf, no excavation in the chalk. Examined by B. H. Cunnington 

 (1909) but nothing found to prove their age. 1 Ancient or Civil War. 

 Not shown in Smith or O.M. 34 NE. 



Is, Neolithic. 



Many flint implements on arable fields about Shepherd's Shore. B. H. 



j Cunnington. 



The ploughed ground all round about Barrow (16) O.M. 27 SE. a rich 



site for worked flints especially scrapers, weathered white like those 



of Windmill Hill, Avebury. M.E.C. 



Is, Bronze Age. 



l contracted interment in grave without a barrow " above Wansdyke." 

 I Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury WO, fig. 15. 



similar interment found 1912 by chalk diggers near Old Shepherd's 

 | Shore, near Barrow (36) in grave 3ft. long and 1ft. 6in. deep. Bone 



implement and two sarsen hammerstones, Devizes Museum. W.A.M. 



xxxviii. 106. 



inerary urn from large barrow W. of Shepherd's Shore now destroyed. 



Devizes Museum, Cat. II. X15 ; W.A.M. vi. 397. 



ronze ring-headed pin, surface, Shepherd's Shore, 1911, Devizes 



Museum, Cat. II. Bl6a ; W.A.M. xxxvii. UOfig. 



oi m. The line of the Roman Road Bath to Cunetio forms N. boundary 

 of parish from its junction with Wansdyke to the Beckhampton — ■ 

 Devizes Road. OM. 27 SE. 



Wick, nr. Devizes, several hundred coins found, 1699. W.A.M. vi. 

 138. 



< i top of Roundway Hill round Barrow (40) abundance of Romano- 

 British pottery shows in molehills, probably site of settlement. O. M. 

 24 NW. M.E.C. 



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