306 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiauities. 



edge of Ridgeway on Avebury boundary, is one of them. See 

 Avebury (44). Smith p. 135 X. I. TV. a, b, c. 



10. In the belt on White Hill | mile S.E. of Church, a barrow. Not 



shown by Smith. O.M. 28 SE. 



11. "Bytham Barrow," large wide bowl-shaped barrow, ploughed 



down, just W. of belt and 200 yds. S. of the last. O.M. 28 SE. ; 

 Smith p. 172, XI. I. VI. a. 



12. Barrow in "Barrow Copse" on S. edge of West Woods, S. of 



Wansdyke. Large, bowl-shaped. Not opened. O.M. 35 NE. ; 

 Smith p. 210 XVI. K. VII. b. 



Stone Circle. "Aubrey mentions as existing in a lane leading from 

 Kennett to Marlborough, and fallen down, ' Eight huge large stones in 

 a circle which never could be by chance, and besides they are rudely 

 hewen.'" A. W. II. 96 ; W.A.M. xix. 55. Smith p. 173 says " The 

 only spot where I find any remains of sarsens which might once have 

 formed a circle is near the village of Overton." 



Earthworks. Wansdyke enters S. W. extremity of parish and runs past 

 Shaw Farm, where it is very strong, into the centre of West Woods 

 and the parish boundary. O.M. 35 NE. 

 Ditch crosses Ridgeway in N. corner of parish running E. & W. O.M. 

 28 NE. 



Ridgeway forms whole W. boundary of Overton along crest of Hackpen 

 Hill. 0. M. 28 S W. ; A. W. II. 46. 



Finds, Neolithic. Pick Rudge 1848. Large flint arrowhead and re- 

 markable ground oblong " flaying knife " found together. Blackmore 

 Museum. Arch. Joum. xii. 285 ; Evans' Stone fig. 255 ; W.A.M. 

 III. 17. 

 Muller found with interment under large sarsen in Piggle Dean. 

 Devizes Museum Cat. II. X95a. 



Finds, Bronze Age. Small urn about 5in. high, with two ears, which 

 contained charcoal, found about 2 ft. 6in. deep in West Woods. T. 

 Leslie ; A. D. Passmore Coll. 



Roman Road to Cunetio, a fragment of its course on Overton Hill, E. of 

 Ridgeway N. of Marlborough Bd. O.M. 28 SW. 



PEWSEY. 

 Barrows. 



1. Pewsey Hill. A barrow \ mile W. of Winters Penning just S. of 



Marlborough— Andover Rd. O.M. 41 NW. 

 [A. W. Station VI. marks 4 barrows apparently on this down.] 



2. Pewsey Down. Barrow f mile W. of Bouverie Penning. O.M. 42 



SW. 

 3 — lO. In S.E. corner of parish W. of Everley Ashes Wood and S. 

 or W. of Marlborough Rd. near Down Farm, a group of 8 bar- 

 rows close together. Hoare opened 4, and figures 2 of them 



