By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 289 



Roman Road to Winchester runs from Folly Farm parallel with Grand 

 Avenue, on E. side of it. Fragment crosses Hungerford Rd. at 2f 

 miles from Marlborough. O.M. 29 NW. A. W. II. Roman JEra, 67, 

 plan 91. 

 Roman Rd. Cunetio to Spinae not traceable by Hoare. A. W. II. Roman 

 JEra, 35. 

 Saxon. Skeleton with pair of fine saucer brooches, pin, and number of 

 glass aud amber beads found 1827. H. Stoughton Money. W.A.M. 

 vi. 259; xxxvii. QWfigs. Devizes Museum. 



MILSTON AND BRIGMERSTON. 

 Barrows. 



1. Long barrow, Brigmerston Field, \ mile W. of Nine Mile Water, 

 | mile S. of Silk Hill. O.M. 55 NW. ; A. W. I. Station VI. ; Soc, 

 Ant. Map 241. See Appendix Long Barrows. 

 2— [21a.] On Silk Hill and to S. W. of it, W. of Nine Mile Water, O.M. 

 55 NW (1900) shows 21 round barrows (2— 21a), one in Silk 

 Hill Plantation, 14 above the 400ft. contour line, 6 below this 

 line to S.W. of hill. 

 [21b.] O.M. 1883. Soc. Ant. Map shows an additional small barrow 

 touching S.E. edge of 8, numbered 166, not in O.M. 55 NW. 

 1900. 

 A.W. I. Station VI. shows 30 round barrows here. 

 Soc. Ant. Map 145=2, 160—165=3—8, 167—170=9—12, 159= 

 13, 158=14, 157=15, 240=16, 172—175 = 17—20,242=21 

 171=21a. 

 Of these barrows Hoare opened five which cannot be exactly 

 identified. 



(a) Largest and most conspicuous barrow on the hill, contained 

 burnt bones on the floor of the barrow with small bronze knife 

 dagger in wooden sheath, 2 perforated whetstones, and a bronze 

 crutched and twisted pin. A.W. I. 194, PI. XXIII. ; Evans' 

 Bronze 336,,fig. 448 ; Evans' Stone 242 ; Arch, xliii. 467 ; Stourhead 

 Cat. 117; W. Cunnington MSS. IV. 17. Nearer the surface a 

 skeleton with iron spearhead. Saxon ? 



(b) Another large and conspicuous barrow, no interment found. 

 A. W. I. 194. 



(c) Disc-shaped barrow without central mound, but beautifully 

 formed vallum. Interment of burnt bones some distance from 

 centre. Figd. as " Barrow No. XL A. W. I. 195." 



(d) Barrow with circular excavation at top, 15 (157). Small 

 cinerary urn filled with ashes only, standing upright, 5in. high, 

 bone object, flint flakes, and pyrites. A.W. I. 195; Evans* 

 Stone 252 ; Stourhead Cat, 124 c, d. 



