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Late Celtic. King's Manor Farm. British coin, disjointed horse type, 

 uninscribed. Modem Wilts v. 162 PI. 



Roman. Villa never excavated said to exist in Clarendon Wood. Many 

 coins found. Arch. Journal II. 86 ; W.A.M. xiii. 34. 



CLYFFE PYPARD. 



Barrows. Below the hill at the Badger Copse between Clyffe and 

 Bupton, O.M. 21 SE., shows a "mound " and 2 barrows. 



1. A small barrow in field a little way N. of the other two, opened, 



no record. O.M. 21 SE. ; Smith 76 V. E.I.a. 



2. A large mound (' natural) just E. of gateway below Badger Copse. 



O.M. 21 SE. 



3. A low, long mound with ditches at sides and not at ends, like a 



very small long barrow 1, just on S. side of the large mound (2). 

 O.M. 21 SE. ; Smith 76, V. E.I. b. 



4. On Windmill Hill f mile W. of Woodhill Park Farm a large 



" mound " (1 a barrow) O.M. 21 NE. ; Smith 76, V. E.I. d. 



Earthworks. 1ST. and W. of Lower Bupton cottages broken ground and 

 many irregular ditches shown on 0-M. ; and adjoining Wood Hill 

 Park Farm on W. and to N. of it in Mill Mead Wood, considerable 

 irregular earthworks, ? of what date. 0-M. 21 NE. 



Finds, Neolithic. Above the hill considerable numbers of worked 

 flint scrapers, round, long shaped and notched, hollow scrapers, 

 borers, knife flakes, cores, &c, of Neolithic type, are found ; all of 

 black and grey flint and almost all of small size as compared with 

 those found on the higher downs. One fragment of a chipped flint 

 celt and a few well-made arrowheads, 4 barbed and tanged, 2 

 triangular, 1 tanged without barbs, and one (broken) apparently of 

 the one sided type with remarkable ripple flaking. Devizes Museum 

 Cat., II. 31, 68—79. 



Roman. In ploughed lands above the hill in 1854 nine interments of 

 skeletons under large sarsen stones found on either side of the 

 Broad Hinton Rd. at Cuff's Corner, scattered about over a consider- 

 able space with, no sign of barrows over them. Other similar 

 interments have been found in other spots. No detailed record. 

 Late Celtic or Romano-British 1 W.A.M. xix. 55 ; Smith, 78. 



A considerable number of sarsen mullers, circular and keeled, or of 

 irregular shape, with a few globular flint mullers, have been found 

 on the surface in the neighbourhood of these interments and are 

 probably connected with them. Devizes Museum Cat. II. 51 — 58. 



Greek bronze coin of Antinous, Bupton. Devizes Museum W.A.M. 

 xxvi. 104. 



Pottery ring, Bupton. Devizes Museum Cat. II. 250; W.A.M. 

 xxxii. 371. 



