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



11. Barrow § mile N.W. of (10) just E. of track on Littlecombe Hill. 



O.M. 58 NW. ; A.W. I. Station IV. 

 [11a.] Hoare mentions that several barrows in this neighbourhood 

 disappeared with the enclosure of the commons. In one of them, 

 on the right of the road from Sutton to Longbridge Deverill, was 

 a skeleton with a drinking cup at the knees, and a plate of slate 

 too large for a " wristguard," called by Hoare a " breastplate," on 

 the breast, with 2 boars' tusks. A.W. I. 103, PI. XII. ; Arch. 

 xliii. 429 fig. 121 ; W.A.M. x. Ill, fig. ; Stourhead Cat. 63, 64 ; 

 Evans' Stone 382, 383. 

 [lib.] Another small barrow near here contained a skeleton with 



drinking cup at its feet. A. W. I. 103. 

 [lie] A disc barrow on Sutton Veny Downs, not far from Pertwood, 

 contained burnt bones, small bronze awl, 2 conical bone buttons, 

 and notched bead of tin, the only object of this metal found 

 in Wilts. A. W. I. 103, PI. XII. ; Stourhead Cat. 65, 66 ; Evans' 

 Bronze, 394. 

 Earthworks. Inside Southleigh Wood an earthwork of squarish form, 

 " Itobin Hood's Bower." Inside area f acre. O.M. 51 SE. ; A. W. I. 

 50, Station II. 

 ["Another small earthen work on Sutton Common." O.M. 52 SW. ; 

 A. W. I. 50. See Longbridge Deverill.] 

 Roman. The two Roman villas spoken of as being in Pitmead lie halfway 

 between Bishopstrow and Norton Bavant, but in Sutton Veny parish. 

 4 pavements found November, 1786, described and illustrated by 

 Catherine Downes in Vetusta Monumenta 1777 II. PI. XLIII., all 

 destroyed immediately after discovery, except one said to have been 

 taken to Longleat, which has now disappeared. It is not clear 

 whether there are 2 villas or only one large one. One part opened 

 again by W. Cunnington 1800 showed entrance on S.W. to corridor 

 72ft. X 9ft. out of which opened 5 rooms with a square room at each 

 end. Coin of Claudius Gothicus. A. W. II. Ill — 117, plan snidfigs. ; 

 W.A.M. xxxiii. Ill ; Gent. Mag. lvii. 221 fig. 



SWALLOWCLIFF. 



[For barrow 1 mile S. of Swallowcliff Church on Ansty boundary see 

 Ansty 3, and for British village partly on Swallowcliff Down see 

 Ansty and Alvediston.] 



SWINDON, 



Megalithic. At Broome Farm, just E. of Midland Eailway, W. of Coate 

 Reservoir, a number of standing stones formerly existed. One called 

 Longstone, about 10ft. high, standing by itself near Broome Farm 

 House, and in the field below many others in a straight line. All 

 destroyed and taken away to pave Cricklade streets. O.M. 15 SE. ; 

 Jackson's Aubrey 193 ; W.A.M. xxiii. 156. 



