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



MILDENHALL. 

 Barrows. 



1. Poulton Down, f mile E. of Ogbourne St. Andrew Church and close 



to parish boundary, large bowl-shaped barrow with deep pond- 

 like depression each side. O.M. 29 NW. ; Smith p. 220, XVIIb. 

 N. IV. d. 

 [la.] Barrow formerly existed N. of B,abley Wood, now destroyed. 

 Smith p. 220 XVIIb. N. IV. b. ; not in O.M. 29 NW. 



2. Barrow N. of Church in village. Hoare noted that it had been 



dug into for stone but not properly examined. O.M. 29 NW. ; 

 W.A.M. xxii. 235 ; not in Smith. 



[2a.] Barrow Field [? in Mildenhall or Preshute], Hoare notes that 

 a barrow had existed here in memory of man, but was destroyed 

 before his time. W.A.M. xxii. 235. 

 Earthworks. Ditch coming out of Aldbourne Chase Wood, Yielding 

 Copse, and Ogbourne St. George runs S.E. towards Smatcham's 

 Copse, W. of Mildenhall Warren Farm. O.M. 29 NE. ; Smith XVIIc. 

 N. IV. a. Hoare A. W. II. 37, Stations XI. XII. shows ditch for 

 short distance N. of Woodlands, on Mildenhall Down, and another 

 larger " covered way " pointing to British village on Aldbourne Chase 

 \ mile further N. 

 Finds, Late Celtic. British coins, W.A.M. xix. 86. 

 Roman. Hoare places site of Lower Cunetio at Mildenhall village, square 

 earthwork to N.E. of Church. O.M. 29 SW. ; A. W. II. 34, 91, plan 

 106. 



Black Field E. of Church and S. of Kennet Rd., part of the site, great 

 number of Boman objects found here. Well 25ft. deep opened by 

 Bev. C. Soames dr. 1860, filled with pottery fragments, oyster and 

 mussel shells, Samian ware, &c. Another well 40yds. away not 

 opened. Great number of coins found in this field, also at Bectory 

 and in Churchyard. Marlborough Coll. Museum. W.A.M. vii. 121 ; 

 xix. 85 ; xxii. 235 ; xxvi. 413. 



Coins of Allectus and Carausius, gold coin of Valens. W.A.M. xix. 85. 



Bronze bracelet and pottery. Devizes Museum Cat. II. 237, 344. 



Site of Upper Cunetio at Folly Farm, opposite Savernake Cottage 

 Hospital on Forest Hill, E. of road up hill, irregular banks and 

 ditches, which Hoare thought Pre-Boman, and inside these " un- 

 doubted remains of. a Boman settlement with a portion of its square 

 circumvallation with the usual rounded oorners." Cremated inter- 

 ment under arch of brick, coarse mosaic pavements, bronze spoon, 

 and female statuette (A. W. II. Boman JEra, 71, 72, Plate). Boman 

 well. O.M. 29 SW. 



Stitchcombe, small freestone relief, figure in niche. Devizes Museum. 

 Cat. II. 273. 



Boman Road to Cirencester coincides with modern road straight N.E. 

 from school at Mildenhall into Ogbourne St. George. O.M. 29 SW. 

 & NW. ; A. W. II. Roman JZra, 92, plan. 



