By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 309 



On Marlborough Common, on N. side of Rockley Rd. 4 barrows 

 (10—13) near together. O.M. 29 NW. & SW. ; A.W. II. 40, 

 Stations XI. XII. ; Smith p. 203, XV. M. V. a, b, c, d. 



10. (a) Large bowl-shaped barrow, no ditch, now made square. O.M. 



29 NW. 



11. (b) Large irregular barrow, no ditch. O.M. 29 SW. 



12. (c) Very low wide bowl-shaped barrow, no ditch. O.M. 29 SW. 



13. (d) Very low barrow, do ditch, not opened. O.M. 29 SW. 



" The Mount " at the College, second only to Silbury in size, 1000ft. 

 in circumference at base. Of Norman origin ? Excavations at 

 the base 1912. A layer of charcoal found on original floor, and 

 fragments of deer horns, apparently used as picks, in the body 

 of the mound. W.A.M. xxxviii. 112 ; O.M. 29 SW. ; A. W. II. 

 15 ; Smith p. 204, XV M. VI. b. 

 14. Preshute Down, f mile S. W. of Barbury Castle, SW. of Barbury 

 Farm. Conspicuous on crest of hill, a large high bowl-shaped 

 barrow, no ditch. Opened, no record. O.M. 22 SE. ; Smith p. 

 122, IX. I. II. c. 

 [For cromlech or chambered barrow at Temple see Ogbourne St. 

 Andrew.] 



Earthworks. Many cultivation enclosure marks on Preshute Down near 

 barrow ( 14). 



Wansdyke to W. of West Woods S. of Foxbury Copse forms S. boundary 

 of parish for \ mile and continues on N. of Gore Copse. O.M. 35 

 NE. 



Just S. of Wick Farm an oblong enclosure with banks in which sarsen 

 stones are imbedded, other banks and cultivation marks around it. 

 O.M. 28 NE. ; A. W. II. 41, Stations XL, XII. ; Smith X. I. III. i. 

 [About 100ft. of one of the banks about 1ft. 6in. high, of the enclo- 

 sure, removed 1913, when medieval or modern pottery was found 

 under the bank. Apparently the earthwork is not ancient. E.H.G.] 



Small faintly-marked enclosure with slight bank and ditch and on W. 

 a row of half -buried sarsens \ mile S.E. of the last, just E. of barrow 

 (9) on Rough Hill, believed by Smith to be Stukeley's " Roman 

 Camp opposite to Barbury Castle on Temple Down." W.A.M. xi. 

 343 ; Smith p. 130, X. I. III. g. ; O.M. 28 NE. shows only a trace of 

 it. 



At Totterdown " a very curious square pit (not a pond) with a long line 

 of sarsens running up the hill westwards ; also a circular depression 

 to the E. marked out with sarsens." Smith p. 135, X. I. IV. e. 



At S. angle of Marlborough Common an earthwork, area above f acre, 

 with S. and W. sides rectangular, other sides irregular, entrance to E. 

 (Hoare) A. W. II. 40. 



