290 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities, 



(e) Disc-shaped barrow, with very high vallum round it. Figd. 

 as "Barrow No. X." Only animals' bones found, no signs of 

 cremation. 



In one of the barrows here was found by W. Cunnington, F.S.A., 

 a broad flat bronze knife dagger with wooden handle and 31 rivets. 

 Evans' Bronze 2Zi,fig. 287; Arch, xliii. 458, PI. XXXIV. 2; lxi. 

 119, ^.7. 64; Stourhead Gat. 115, fig.; A.W. I. 195 note, PI. 

 XXXIII. ; W.A.M. xxxvii. 98 {fig.) 



22. Long barrow on Brigmerston Down, just S. of small earthwork 



i mile S.E. of 23, 24. 122 ; O.M. 55 N W. ; Soc. Ant. Map 183 ; 

 not in A.W. I. Station VI. See Appendix Long Barrows. 



23. Barrow just S. of line of Brigmerston Firs, within the plantation. 



Opened by Lt.-Col. W. Hawley [No. 5]. 3 small cinerary urns 

 with burnt bones close together at the side. In centre, in shallow 

 bowl-shaped cist, burnt bones with a bone bead, and impress of 

 cloth in which bones had been wrapped. O.M. 55 NW. ; W.A.M. 

 xxxvi. 620 ; Soc. Ant. Map 181. [This barrow is now just on the 

 edge of wood. 1913. M.E.C.] 



24. Barrow close on 1ST. side of last, actually on Figheldean boundary. 



in the line of firs. Opened by Lt.-Col. W. Hawley [No. 7]. A 

 rectangular cist 3ft. deep with crouched skeleton, and pot or food 

 vessel. O.M. 55 N" W. ; W.A.M. xxxvi. 621 plan ; Soc. Ant. Map 

 180. 

 24a. Barrow on the boundary on W. side of 24 opened by Lt.-Col. 

 W. Hawley. Nothing found. W.A.M. xxxvi. 621 ; O.M, 55 N W ; 

 Soc. Ant. Map shown but not numbered. 



From a barrow at Brigmerston, no details known, a high-brimmed 

 globose drinking cup found with red deer's horn. Devizes 

 Museum Cat. II. xlO ; W.A.M. xxxv. 177. 



On Milston Down and in track to N.E. of it between Nine Mile 

 Biver and the Hampshire border, O.M. 55 N W. shows 23 (or 24 ?) 

 round barrows and 2 Long barrows, not including Bulford 66 

 which is on the Bulford boundary to the S. O.M. 55 NW. 25 

 —41 are E. of the ditch. 



25 — 27. Three barrows in line near together just W. of trackway and 

 E. of ditch, S.E. of point where 6 tracks meet at the ditch. A. W. 

 I. Station VI. ; Soc. Ant. Map 185—187. 



28 — 30. Three barrows in line near together E. of the last and just 

 S. or E. of a trackway in wooded ground. 28 lies alone, 29 and 

 30 close together to the N.E. [The northernmost (30) is a disc 

 barrow with the unusual feature of the ditch being outside the 

 vallum. 1913. M.E.C.] Soc. Ant. Map 188—190. 



