By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 305 



this, near the top, a large urn inverted over burnt bones. O.M. 

 28 SW. ; A. W. II. 90 ; Smith p. 166 XI. H. VI. f. ; W.A.M. 

 vi. 330. 



5. A little to N.E. of the triplet, a large bowl-shaped barrow with 



slight ditch, opened by Hoare. (No. 5). Burnt bones in cist. 

 O.M. 28 SW. ; A. W. II. 91 ; Smith p. 166, XL H. vi. e. 

 [A. W. II. Stations XI. and XII. shows 5 barrows in the above 

 group.] 



6. [6a. — b.] Just N. of the junction of Eoman Rd. with Bidgeway, both 



Hoare and Thurnam mark a group of 3 (?) very small barrows 1 or 

 "miniature mounds." Thurnam opened two of them, found 

 nothing in one, and traces of burnt bone, with fragments of 

 bronze and pottery in the other. W.A.M. vi. 330. Smith and 

 O.M. 28 SW. mark only one, p. 165 XL H. VI. d. ; A.W.IL 

 70 plan, and Stations XL & XII. show 4, including the next 

 barrow 7. 



7. Close to this on the 1ST. a very small low barrow. O.M. ; Smith p. 



170 XL H. VI. o. 



8. N. again and close to Ridgeway a bowl-shaped barrow, 67ft. diam., 



7ft. high, opened by Hoare (No. 6). Burnt bones on floor of 

 barrow, and above near the surface, a large urn inverted over 

 burnt bones, and a second heap of burnt bones alone. O.M. 28 

 SW. ; A. W. II. 91 ; Smith p. 165, XL H. VI. c. 

 Hoare notes several other " flat barrows " which he opened here. 

 All had been opened before, and nothing was found, but evidence 

 of cremation in all of them. Not in O.M. or Smith's map. 



[8a.] N. again, a very small barrow formerly existed. Not in O.M. 

 Smith?- 170 XL H. VI. n. 



[8b.] Probably hereabouts stood the barrow mentioned by Aubrey. 

 " Opened in Kennet parish, Anno 1643, two stones eleven feet 

 long laid side by side, and a corps between, with a sword and 

 knife. Another like stone laid over all." Stukeley Abury, 45 ; 

 Smith?. 170 Jig. 

 In one of the barrows on this hill Thurnam found a skeleton with 

 the fine drinking cup and perforated axe hammer of veined 

 stone now in the British Museum. Arch, xliii, 392, 410 figs. ; 

 Smith?. 168, 169 figs. 



9. In the northern corner of the parish, just E. of Ridgeway, and N. 

 of the point where the track from Avebury to Rockley crosses 

 it, a small barrow, opened by Dean Merewether 1849 (No. 6). An 

 oval cist in floor 2ft. X l|ft. X 2ft. deep, with burnt bones 

 covered with charcoal dust with which the cist was filled. In 

 the body of the mound fragments of pottery and animals' bones. 

 Near the surface an urn. O.M. 28 NE. ; Proc. Arch. Inst. 

 Salisbury p. 84 ; Smith p. 134 X. H. IV. q. 



[9a — c] N. of this, and near Ridgeway, 3 very low i ndistinct barrows 

 close together. Not in O.M., unless a barrow shown on W. 



