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CHITTOE. 



Finds, Bronze Age. A bronze socketed and looped spearhead with 

 prominent midrib, 6in. or Tin. long, found about 1903, " near Spye 

 Park," came into possession of Police Sergeant Hill, now (1912) at 

 Purton, who lost it. E.BL.G. 

 Roman. At Bushey Marsh Farm, in extreme S.W. corner of parish, § 

 mile N. W. of Sandridge village, quantity of pottery found (? Roman). 

 O.M. 33 NE. ; Gent. Mag. 1796 pp. 472, 473. 



At Chittoe Heath (" Chitway Heath "), just S. of Wans Cross Roads. 

 Hoare mentions a Roman house, no details. O.M. 26 SE. ; A. W. 

 II. 124. 



At Silverstreet \ mile W. of Chittoe Church, another Roman building 

 noted by W. Cunnington. O.M. 33 NE. ; A. W. II. 124. 



Great quantities of slag and scoriae from iron smelting, probably 

 Roman, existed in the fields at Chittoe, and especially in Spye 

 Park to E. of house where heaps of it were " several feet in thick- 

 ness." The lower greensand iron ore extends over the park. W.A.M. 

 xxi. 268 ; Gent. Mag. 1796, 472. 



Roman Rd. and Wansdyke combined runs straight W. to E. to Wans 

 House through Spye Park N. of the house, its course W. of the 

 house being lost, but E. of the house it is in places very perfect 6ft- 

 or 7ft. high by 20ft. wide with regular trench on N. side (Hoare). 

 O.M. 26 SE. ; A. W. II. 83, plan. 



CHOLDERTON. 

 Barrows. 



1 . Barrow at Ann's Copse S. of AndoverRd. at 4? miles f rom Amesbury. 



O.M. 55 S.W. ; A. W. I. Station V. South ; Soc. Ant. Map 565. 



2. Barrow on boundary of Newton Tony •§ mile N. W. of Wilbury Ho. 



in plantation just on S. edge of Rd. O.M. 55 SW. ; not in A. W. ; 

 not numbered on Soc. Ant. Map. 

 A barrow opened by Mr. Hutchins contained burnt bones and in- 

 cense cup. Ashmolean Museum. Arch. XLIII. 361 fig. 41 ; 

 Modern Wilts, V. 210. 

 Rev. T. Mozley opened a " double barrow " on the Cow Down and 

 found " that it was British but overlaid with a Roman cremation 

 which had at some time been roughly investigated." Reminis- 

 cences of Towns and Villages, II. 313. 

 Earthworks. Large ditch running roughly parallel with S. side of 

 Amesbury —Andover Rd. and forming boundary of Amesbury and 

 Bulford and Bulford and Cholderton from Margaret's Wood to Ann's 

 Copse, turns at this point and runs towards Wilbury, passing just N. 

 of Ann's Farm after which its track is lost. O.M. 55 S W. ; A. W. I. 

 216, Station V. South ; Soc. Ant. Map 563. 

 Another ditch ran S.E. from Bulford Down to Cholderton village, its 

 track only is marked on O.M. 55 SW. ; A. W. I. Station V. South. 

 Roman. Many coins, chiefly of Allectus and Carausius found. Mozley's 

 Reminiscences II. 317. 



