By the Bev. E. H. Goddard. 269 



(1) Nearest Horse Barrow. Layers of ashes and a few animals' 

 bones, no interment. 



(2) In line with (I). Crouched skeleton in grave. 



(3) Further N. Cist in chalk with burnt bones covered by large 

 flints, and fragments of urn. 



(4) Grave with skeleton, a heap of burnt bones between its elbows 

 and knees. 



(5) Skeleton of young woman just under surface, under this 

 skeleton of child of 6 or 7, with one bead. Considerable quantity 

 of burnt bones in heaps near both skeletons, with fine cin. urn 

 14in.high. Salisbury Museum. W.A.M. xxxiii. 413 fig. Human 

 remains in Edinburgh Anatomical Museum. 



From a barrow at Idmiston, 1873, bronze knife dagger with 6 rivets. 

 Blackmore Museum. Evans' Bronze 237, fig. 296. 



Earthworks. Hoare, A.W. I. 216, 217, Station V. South, shows' ditch 

 beginning to N. of Roman Road in Boscombe, running S.E. over 

 Idmiston Down, just W. of the Barrows 1 — 11 to near Winterslow 

 Hut where with other ditches it forms a large oblong. O.M. 61 

 S.W. and S.E. show it near the barrows for f mile, but not N. 

 of this. 



Finds, Neolithic. Near the " Horse Barrow " on boundary of Winter" 

 bourne Gunner, close to W. side ; of L. & S. W. R., E. A. Rawlence 

 excavated 1897 a singular circular trench filled with flints, about 

 150ft. diam., and 3ft. wide, enclosing in centre a grave with crouched 

 skeleton and one worked flint. A second similar circle lies partly 

 under railway embankment. Neolithic or Bronze Age 1 W.A.M. 

 xxxiii. 410. 

 Oblong axe of dark green stone with shallow depression in middle of 

 each side, from ploughed land near Porton. C. V. Goddard Coll. 



Finds, Bronze Age. Bronze looped palstave. Gomeldon. Blackmore 

 Museum. 



Roman. Line of the Portway, Old Sarum to Silchester, enters parish at 

 Gomeldon, crosses Bourne, and runs N.E. through the parish parallel 

 with and just on W. side of L. &, S. W. R. O.M. 61 SW. ; A. W. I. 

 Station V. South ; II. Roman Mra 46 'plan. 



IMBER. 

 Barrows. 



1. Barrow close to British village 1 mile N.W. of Imber, \ mile E. of 



Wadman's Coppice. O.M. 45 SE. ; A.W. I. Station III. 



2, 3. Two barrows on Rough Down, 300 yds. apart, \ mile N.E. of 



Imber. O.M. 45 SE. ; A. W. I. Station III. 

 4. Barrow in extreme corner of parish just W. of Bath to Salisbury 

 Old Rd. at 15j miles from Salisbury. Low round barrow with 

 ditch and vallum outside ditch. Two entrances E. and W. 

 O.M. 46 SW. ; A. W. I. 88, Station III. 



