By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 229 



[lb.] (3) Small barrow between (1) and (2), 1ft. 6in. high. Under 

 it a "room" lift, deep with sharp angles. In centre skeleton at 

 full length, many pieces of wood and iron nails. Fragments of 

 Roman pottery in the soil. Roman or Saxon 1 A. W. I. 78 ; not 

 in 0. M. 52 SE. [Can still be seen, 1913. M.E.C.] 



2. (4) Large flat barrow N. of (1). " Floor covered with black ashes 



and charred wood, intermixed with human bones half burned." 

 O.M. 52 SE. ; A.W.I. 78. 



3. (5) Very flat wide barrow just N. of (2), 1ft. high, no interment 



found. O.M. 52 SE. ; A. W. I. 78. 



4. (6) Bell-shaped barrow, 63ft. diam. X 8ft. high, with ditch. On 



floor urn inverted over burnt bones, with perforated hammer 

 axe. Ashes piled up in heap jiear urn. O.M. 52 SE. ; A.W.I. 

 79, PI. viii. ; S tour head Cat. 15. 

 [4a— 4c] (9. 10, 11) 3 small barrows between (4) and (5), a few 

 inches high, each containing urn with burnt bones. A. W. I. 79 ; 

 not on O.M. 52 SE. [Still exist, but are difficult to see, 1913. 

 M.E.C.] , 



5. (8) Flat barrow 5ft. high, without ditch. Heap of burnt bones to 



S. of centre, with perforated stone hammer axe and bone imple- 

 ment. O.M. 52 SE. ; A.W. I. 79, PI. viii.; Stourhead Cat. 

 Vfig. 



6. (7) Barrow a little west of the others. Burnt bones in shallow 



cist in centre. Saxon skeleton buried above this with fragments 

 of bronze-mounted firwood bucket (Hoare calls it a shield er- 

 roneously) and iron sword, with cloth. O.M. 52 SE. ; A. W. I. 

 79 ; Stourhead Cat. 227. 



Earthworks. The numerous banks on N. side of barrows 1 — 6 in O.M. 

 52 SE. are cultivation banks regularly thrown up. M.E.C. 



Saxon. Skeletons in Barrows, see above, Barrows [lb] and (6). 



COLERNE. 



Barrows. "Site of Tumulus" is shown in O.M. 19 SW. within Bury 

 Wood Camp exactly at the spot where Hoare shows the small 

 rectangular work (see below). Hoare shows no barrow. Probably 

 there was not one here. 0. M. shows no sign of the small work. 



Earthworks. Bury Wood Camp, or North Wood Camp, \ mile from Fosse- 

 way and \ mile S. of N. Wraxall. Area 25 acres, encloses point of 

 a promontory of Colerne Down. On the down side a double rampart 

 with entrance in centre. (Dr. Thurnam discusses possibility of this 

 being the fortress to which the Danes fled after battle of Ethandune). 

 A small nearly square work with entrance on W. inside Camp near 

 the W. side. A. W. II. 103, PI. XVI. ; W.A.M. iii. 78, 79, plan. 

 Short angle entrenchment, bank, and ditch, about 200 yds. long, just 

 N. of Gilling Grove, f of a mile S.W. of Ford. O.M. 19 SW. Aubrey 



