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



HINTON PARVA. 



Barrows. On " Shelbarrow Hill " Hoare A. W. II. 46 notes that old maps 

 of Wilts show several barrows here, really natural mounds. 

 1 [la]. On Hinton Down N. of Ermine Street. A. W. II. Stations 

 XL, XII. shows 2 barrows some distance apart. O.M. 16 SE. 

 shows only one, opened by Canon Greenwell. Arch, lii., 57, 58. 

 (No. cclxxxvii) ; lxi. 125. 68ft. diam. X 8|ft. high. Saxon 

 interment near surface. In centre a cist 3ft. 4in. long X 2ft. 

 wide X 1ft. deep with burnt bones and a bronze dagger (W.A. M. 

 xxxvii. 121) which had had a wooden sheath. Much charcoal 

 all round the edge of the cist on original surface. The barrow 

 has since been almost destroyed, a large shale bead found in it. 

 A. D. Passmore coll. 



The Ridgeway crosses the parish S.W. to N.E. O.M. xvi. SE. ; A.W. 

 II. 46. 



HOLT. 



Finds, Neolithic. Worked flints, a scraper, and many flakes occur in 

 oolitic gravel dug near the station. Of doubtful age, no regular 

 Palaeolithic implements, and all flints of small size. C. V. Goddard 

 1906 ; W. G. Collins, 1911, W.A.M. xxxvii. 197. 



HOMINGTON. 

 Barrows. 



1. Barrow on boundary of Combe Bissett f- mile S.W. of Homington 

 village. O.M. 71 NW. ; not shown in A.W. I. Station VII. 

 In a barrow ? at Homington was found a skeleton " about 13 or 14 

 inches below the surface," with an " urn " and a flat plain bronze 

 knife dagger with five rivets, in the British Museum. Proc. Soc. 

 Ant. iv. 329 ; Horoe Ferales, 158, PI. vii. 21 ; Arch, xliii. PI. xxxiii.; 

 lxi. 119, fig. 65; Evans' Bronze 237, fig. 295; W. A.M. xxxvii. 

 98, 118. 

 [The barrows shown in A. W. I. Station VII. on Homington Down 

 were apparently in Odstock.] 

 Earthworks. Grims Ditch touches extreme S. corner of parish. O.M. 



71 SW. 

 Finds, Neolithic. Ground flint wedge-shaped celt 1872. Blackmore 

 Museum. 



HORNINGSHAM. 

 Barrows. 



[1.] Barrow on N. side of Maiden Bradley — Longbridge Deverill 

 Road, opposite track to Bidcombe Hill, opened by Hoare. 

 Interment of burnt bones. A.W.I. 50 Station II. Not on O.M. 

 57 NW. 



