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



3. "Giants Chair," round barrow a little distance S.E. of last. O.M. 



71 SE. ; not in A.W. I. Station VII. 

 [The barrows shown in A. W. I. Station VII. at Gallows Hill and 



Breaniore Down are in Hants. O.M. 76 NE. 

 Earthworks. From Whitsbury Camp, now in Hants, a ditch called in 



O.M. " Grimsditch " runs N. to Gallows Hill, where it forms Wilts 



and Downton boundary for \ mile, and across Wick Down and New 



Court Down into Standlynch. O.M. 76 NE. ; 71 SE. ; A. W. I. 231 



Station VII. 

 The Moot, large earthworks of doubtful plan and date, just on E. bank 



of the Avon, strong double horseshoe-shaped banks and ditches, 



much cut about and altered by conversion into pleasure grounds. 



Said to be a Saxon " moot hill." O.M. 77 NW. ; Arch. Joum. xxxii. 



305—309, plan ; W.A.M. xxi. 353. 

 Finds, Bronze Age. 2 looped palstaves, 2 palstaves without loops, 



1 socketed looped celt. Blackmore Museum. Evans' Bronze, 89, 



91, 120 ; W.A.M. xxxvii. 132, 133, 135. 



DUKNFOKD. 

 Barrows. 



Group of 7 barrows (1—7) round Littledown Clump, just E. of 

 the Avon, N. of Netton Hill, is shown on O.M. 60 NE. A. W. I. 

 Station V. South shows 2 barrows as on Netton Hill. Of these 

 Rev. E. Duke opened one, finding charcoal only without inter- 

 ment. A. W. I. 221. Perhaps these are the barrows mentioned 

 by Mr. Letheuillier. In E. side of one, urn filled with ashes 

 found 1731, and another urn in same barrow 1732. In the other, 

 a skeleton with a " spearhead " (dagger V) found 1732. A. W. I. 

 221, 222 ; Gent. Mag. 1754 p. 188 confuses the account but refers 

 to same barrows. 

 1, 2. Two large barrows (1 the westernmost) close together near 

 chalk pit and Avon. 



3. Small barrow just S.E. of last near clump. 



4. Barrow a little distance E. of 1 and 2. 



5. 6, 7. Three small barrows close together just S. of clump. 

 Earthworks. Ogbury Camp above and just E. of Gt. Durnford village. 



Area 62 acres, circuit 1 mile, 1 furlong, 53 yds. Single rampart of no 

 great strength, without ditch, much mutilated on SE. and W. sides. 

 Entrance to E. Hoare found marks of enclosures inside but no 

 signs of habitation. O.M. 60 NE. ; A. W. I. 219, 220, Station V. 

 South ; Stukeley, Itin. Curiosa 1 38. [The whole interior has been 

 ploughed and all trace of enclosures, &c, destroyed, 1913. M.E.C.]. 

 Bank and ditch running N.E. from Little Durnford a continuation says 

 Hoare of the Groveley and Chilhampton Ditch. A. W. 1. 215, Station 

 V. South. 

 Roman. On high ground just E. of Ogbury Camp, signs of British village. 

 A. W. I. 220, Station V. South. 



