254 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities, 



14 — [16d]. Group of small barrows 4 in a row (14, 15, 16, 16d), 



of which the three first only are shown on O.M. 55 NW., with 

 3 smaller mounds close together just on N. side of them (16a, 

 16b, 16c), all 5 mile SW. of last group just on N. side of Drove 

 Way and Milston boundary, N.E. of Silk Hill Plantation. W.A.M. 

 xxxvi. 616 plan : Soc. Ant. Map 156, 155, 154, 153. 



15. Small barrow opened by Capt. W. Hawley (No. 9), burnt bones 

 in bowl-shaped cist, nothing else. W.A.M. xxxvi. 622 ; Soc. 

 Ant. Map 155. 



16. Small barrow opened by Capt. W. Hawley (No. 8). Burnt bones 



in bowl-shaped cist in loose chalk of the barrow. 2ft. below this 

 a cist 4ft. deep, 8ft. long X 3ft. 9in. wide, with skeleton buried 

 at full length. Small pot at the feet and under the skull a broad- 

 bladed bronze knife dagger with three large rivets, 4|in. long. 

 Brit. Museum. W.A.M. xxxvi. 621, fig. ; xxxvii. 118 ; Soc. 

 Ant. Map 154. 

 [16a — 16c] Three small mounds on N. side of the row of 4 barrows, 

 opened by Capt. W. Hawley. All contained burnt bones ; in one 

 an urn "in a ruinous state." W.A.M. xxxvi. 622 ; not in OM. 



17 — 20. Group of 3 barrows close together just W. of track Marl- 

 borough to Salisbury, at 12 miles from Salisbury, and one (20) 

 in the track itself, W. of Brigmerston Plantation. O.M. 48 

 SW. ; A. W. I. Station VI. shows 3 only ; Soc. Ant. Map. 

 176—179. 



21, 22. Two barrows just E. of track 1 mile N. of the last group, at 

 13th mile from Salisbury, near Fittleton boundary. O.M. 48 

 SW. ; A.W.I. Station VI. ; Soc. Ant. Map 116, 117. 



23, 24. Two barrows just N. of Dunch Hill Plantation, E. of Marl- 

 borough — Salisbury Bd., 12| miles from Salisbury. O.M. 48 

 SW. ; A. W. I. Station VI. shows only one ; Soc. Ant. Map 119, 

 120. 



25. Barrow in Barrow Clump | mile E. of Ablington Farm, f mile 

 N.E. of Syrencot House, opened by Capt. W. Hawley. Had been 

 previously partly destroyed. {1 was this the barrow opened by 

 Mr. Dyke Poore 1849.) Three crouched skeletons almost touching 

 each other, with skeleton of infant with uncut teeth just over 

 two of them. Below these a rectangular cist 7ft. 3in. x 4ft 3in. 

 X 5ft. deep, containing skeleton with pot at the feet and flint 

 knife under the head (knife and pot at Stockton House). O.M. 

 54 NE. ; not in A. W. ; W.A.M. xxxvi, 623 ; Soc. Ant. Map 143. 

 If this was the barrow opened in 1849 a strong bronze dagger 

 with rather flat blade, small knife dagger, 3 boars' tusks, 2 roe- 

 bucks' horns, with cists and burnt bones were found in it. 

 Blackmore Museum. Arch, xliii. 537 ; Arch. Journ. x. 248 ; 

 W.A.M. iv. 249 ; xxxvii. 119 ; Evans' Bronze 242. 



