310 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities. 



Between "Old Chapel" and Glory Ann, apparently in this parish, 

 Hoare noted " a singular excavation " described by Stukeley as " a 

 pyriform concavity set with stones on the inside. It is styled Bal- 

 more Pond . . . 150 cubits broad, 180 long." A. W. II. 43. 



Megalithic. " N.E. of Glory Ann " (says Hoare), on " Temple Downs " 

 (says Stukeley), stood the remarkable relic described by Stukeley 

 under the name of " Old Chapel." " 'Tis a large square entrench'd, 

 110 Druid cubits by 1 30 like a little BomanCamp, with one entrance 

 on the south-west side towards Abury ... It is made of a 

 vallum and ditch ; beyond that a row of flat stones set quite round 

 and pretty close to one another like a wall ; beyond that another 

 lesser ditch ; there are stones too set on each side the entrance. , On 

 the north-west side is a large long barrow, 50 cubits in length with 

 two great stone works upon it ; one on the end next the great en- 

 clos'd place we have been describing ; another stone work towards 

 the other end ; which seems to have been a semi-circular cove, or 

 demi-ellipsis, consisting of five great stones ; a Stonehenge cell in 

 . miniature, but now in ruins : this probably gave the name of Old 

 Chapel to the place ; the barrow likewise has been set quite round 

 with great stones. In the second stone-work, one stone lies flat on 

 the ground along the middle line of the barrow. On each side a 

 flat stone stands upright and two flat stones stand upright at right 

 angles, as wings to 'em : upon them, [ suppose other stones were pil'd, 

 as a Kistvaen. . . . The stones are generally very large, about 

 10ft. long." Stukeley, Abury 47, 48. In Hoare's time only one flat 

 stone remained at the E. end of the Long Barrow. A. W. II. 42. 

 The barrow has now disappeared and its site is unknown. Smith p. 

 129. 



Apparently in this parish or Fyfield, " on the brow of a hill towards the 

 East," from Monkton Down, Dean Merewether noted " a circle 16ft. 

 in diameter, of sarsen stones, of which seven only now remain, 

 although the dips in the earth show where the others have been. In 

 centre of these are five of the same character and size, surrounding 

 one lying flat and impacted between them." Under this central stone 

 was, on the surface, a fragment of Samian pottery, and below this 

 numbers of fragments of British pottery, animals' bones, and numerous 

 flint flakes and scrapers. Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury p. 105 (No. 29), 

 Jigs, e.e., f.f. 



N.W. of Wick Cottages 3 large sarsen stones " seem to mark either 

 some burial place or other monument of old time." Smith p. 122, 

 IX. I. II. e. ; not in O.M. 22 SE. 



Devil's Den, in Clatford Bottom, dolmen now standing ou remains of 

 mound, regarded by Hoare as kistvaen at the E. end of a long barrow, 

 perhaps never entirely covered by the mound. O.M. 28 SE. ; A. W. 

 II. 43, PI. IX. ; Stukeley's Abury pp. 62—66, Tabs 32—34 ; Smith 

 p. 202, XV. K. V. a. See Appendix Long Barrows. 



Finds, Neolithic. Flint scrapers, <kc. Manton. J. W. Brooke Coll. 



