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



BLUNSDON ST. ANDREW. 



Earthworks. " Bury Blunsdon" Camp or Castle Hill just W. of Upper 

 Burytowa Farm -jf mile N.E. of Broad Blunsdon (St. Leonard's) 

 Church. Ramparts only to the S. of moderate height, natural slope 

 of ground to N. only defence. Area 7 acres, 3 roods, 17 perches. 

 Hoare thought it Saxon. O.M. 10 NE. ; A. W. II. 39. 



Finds, Bronze Age. Bronze looped palstave 5^in. long found at 

 Burytown on high ground S. of farm, 1906. In private hands. 



Roman. Ermine Street forms parish boundary from Latton boundary to 

 Blunsdon House and then runs on S.E. through parish to Kingsdown. 

 O.M. 10 NE. and SE. 



BOSCOMBE. 



Roman. The line of the Portway, from Old Sarum to Silchester, runs 

 across the parish parallel and close on the N. or W. side of the L. 

 S.W. Railway. O.M. 61 SW. & NW. 



BOWERCHALKE. 

 Barrows. 



1 — 4. On Marleycombe Hill \ mile S.W. of Bowerchalke Church, N. 



of the Ox Drove, O.M. 70 SW. shows 3 barrows (1—3) close 



together and 1 (4) to the S.W. of them. A. W. I. Stations VIII., 



IX. shows 7 barrows here close together. 

 5, 6. Above Woodhouse Hanging, \ mile S.W. of Woodminton. O.M. 



70 SW. shows 2 barrows close together, apparently not in A. W. I. 



Station VIII. IX. 



7. Barrow on W. side of enclosure at East Chase Farm. S. of the Ox 



Drove. O.M. 75 N.W. 



8. Barrow \ mile W. of the last. O.M. 75 NW. 



A. W. I. Stations VIIL, IX. shows 2 barrows N. of Ox Drove here, E. 

 and W. of the British village [possibly the latter is (9)], but 

 marks none S. of the Drove. 



9. Barrow N. of Ox Drove, | mile S. of Woodminton. 0. M. 75 N W. . 



A.W.I. Stations VIIL, IX. 

 In a barrow opened 1883 was found a large tub-shaped urn. Salisbury 



Museum. Stourhead Cat. 257 note. 

 Earthworks. Hoare, A. W. I. 245, Stations VIIL, IX., shows Bokerly 

 Ditch after crossing Roman Rd. at E Woodyates running across 

 W. Woodyates and diagonally across Grimsditch to the N. \V. over 

 Wilts border to Bowerchalke Down, and into a large British village 

 there about 1 mile S. of Bowerchalke village. O.M. 75 NW. shows 

 Bokerly Ditch running E. to W. through East and West Woodyates, 

 but does not continue it across the Wilts border. 



