By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 285 



MARDEN. 



The Ridgeway coming from Gore Cross to near Broadbury Banks cuts 



across Marden on edge of the escarpment. O.M. 41 SW. 

 Earthworks. [Hatfield Barrow & entrenchment though close to Marden 



village were in Beechingstoke. q.v.] 

 "Long Ditch" runs W. to E. over Marden Down. O.M. 46 NE. ; 47 



NW. ; Soc. Ant. Map 22. 

 Roman. British village shown on O.M. 41 NW. just E. of Church & school 



and S.W. of Hatfield Earthworks. 



MARLBOROUGH. 



Barrows. See Preshute, Ogbourne, &c. 



Finds, Neolithic, from the neighbourhood. A large number of flint 

 implements, scrapers, fabricators, chipped knives, &c. J. W. Brooke 

 Coll. 

 Perforated oval chert hammer stone. Arch. Journ. xxv. 250. 

 Ground flint celt from barrow "on downs near." Stourhead Cat. 347. 

 Finds, Late Celtic. On site of college Sanatorium. Bronze bow brooch 

 of 1st cent. 1906. J. W. Brooke Coll. W.A.M. xxxv. 403 fig. 

 In 1897 in digging foundations of new wing of College Sanatorium 

 5 wide-mouthed urns were found standing upright within space of a 

 few yards about 1ft. 6in. below surface. Only relic found with them 

 indicative of date, a horn knife handle with iron tang. The vessels 

 unlike others found in county, with rough incised or combed orna- 

 ment. Probably Late Celtic. Coll. Museum. Marlborough Coll. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. Report 1897 . figs.; W.A.M. xxx. 67; O.M. 29 SW. 

 Roman. Bronze bow brooch, Aucissa type, "neighbourhood of Marl- 

 borough." 1910. W.A.M. xxxvii. 477. 

 Small relief of Fortune, defaced, probably from Cunetio, built into 

 interior E. wall of S. aisle of St. Mary's Ch. W.A.M. xxxiv. 141, 

 203 fig. 



MARSTON, SOUTH. 



Earthworks. An entrenchment of rectangular form formerly existed in 

 field at Rowborough Farm, \ mile S.E. of Church, mentioned as 

 " Roman " by Alfred Williams, A Wiltshire Village, p. 12. Entirely 

 ploughed down and not shown on O.M. 11 SW. 



MELKSHAM. 



Earthworks, &c. The line of the Roman Road & Wansdyke combined 

 forms the N. boundary of the parish throughout as far as Bowden 

 Hill. O.M. 25 SE., 26 SW. ; A. W. II. 27, 81 plan. 



Human Remains. Skeleton, one leg stretched out, the other bent, found 

 in gravel digging near the Grove. Skull brachycephalic. ? Of what 

 age. Cambridge Museum No. 260. 



