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



Knook Castle. The two British villages mentioned below are on 

 the line of Old Ditch. 



Finds, Neolithic. In one of the banks of the British village N.W. of 

 Knook Castle Hoare found skeleton with ground celt of black stone 

 at its feet. O.M. 52 NE, ; A. W. I. 85, PI. IX. ; Stourhead Gat. 14 ; 

 Evans' Stone 134. 



Roman. Two British villages, one just N. of Knook Castle the other i 

 mile NE. of it, connected by Old Ditch, which, says Hoare, has been 

 destroyed by one of them, i.e., the ditch is older than the settlement. 

 Abundance of coins, T-shaped hypocaust regularly built of masonry, 

 painted stucco, brick flues, pit coal, pottery, brooches, &c. O.M. 52 

 NE. ; A.W.I. 84, 85, plan, Station III. ; Britton's Beauties of Wilts, 

 II. 52 ; W.A.M. xxxiv. 272 ; xxxvii. 496. 



UPTON SCUDAMORE. 



Barrows. 



In arable land W. of Warminster Road and E. of railway, \ mile 

 S. of Church, 2 barrows close together (1, la), opened by Hoare 

 1809. O.M. 51 NE. ; A.W. I. 52, Station II. O.M. shows only 

 barrow 1. 



1. The largest 94ft. diam. X 13ft. high. At depth of 5ft. from surface 

 of barrow a skeleton which had been deposited in a wooden box 

 or trunk of a tree with a small bronze knife or dagger. On floor 

 great quantity of wood ashes, and a few feet from the centre an 

 urn standing upright with burnt bones. 



[la.] The second barrow had been partially opened some years before 

 and a skeleton found. In the floor of the barrow a large oblong 

 grave 5ft. deep containing skeleton, " underneath it was a little 

 well, as if designed to draw the moisture from the body." 2jft. 

 above this was a regular floor covered with black ashes. 



Upton Cow Down. Hoare, A.W. I. 54, mentions a' mutilated 

 barrow near the earthwork on the point of this down. Ap- 

 parently that shown above White Scar Hanging in O.M. 44 SE. 



[Nos. 3—9 are in O.M. 45 SW. A. W. I. Station II. shows 5 bar- 

 rows on E. edge of trackway and 6 scattered to S.W. of it, none 

 of which were opened by Hoare. It seems impossible to identify 

 these with those on O.M. 45 SW.] 



Barrow on Warminster boundary on N.E. edge of Dirtley Wood. 

 O.M. 45 SW. ; A. W. I. Station II. 



Barrow N. of last near old chalk pit. O.M. 45 SW. ; apparently 

 not in it. IT. I. Station II. 



Site of barrow on Warminster boundary \ mile S.W. of Dirtley 

 Wood. O.M. 45 SW. ; A. W. I. Station II. 



