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



Hoare's time. O.M. 54 SW. ; A. W. I. 205 ; Soc. Ant. Map 484. 

 [In wood and planted, otherwise in fair condition, 1912. M. E.C.J 



2a. (163) N. of last in Normanton Gorse, opened by Hoare, burnt 

 bones in shallow cist, with fragments of incense cup and bone 

 pin. O.M. 54 SW. ; A. W. I. 205 ; Soc. Ant. Map 483. [In wood 

 and much defaced, 1912. M.E.C.] 



2b. (161) S. of 162 in Normanton Gorse, low barrow, opened by 

 Hoare, skeleton near surface with drinking cup, another skeleton 

 lft. 6in. lower down, and in grave 6ft. deep skeleton with drink- 

 ing cup. O.M. 54 SW. ; A.W. I. 205 ; Soc. Ant. Map 485. [In 

 wood and much defaced, 1912. M.E.C.] 



8. (160) Large disc barrow just S.E. of Normanton Gorse, opened 

 by Hoare, 1804. Burnt bones in small circular cist with "great 

 variety of amber, jet, and glass beads." OM. 54 SW. ; A.W. I. 

 205 ; Stourhead Cat. 154 — 1546 ; Soc. Ant. Map 486. [Condition 

 good, 1912. M.E.C.] 



4. (159) Large disc barrow close on S. side of last, opened by Ld. 



Pembroke or Stukeley. Burnt bones in cist. O.M. 54 SW r . ; 

 A.W. I. 205 ; W.A.M. xvi. 147 (169 misprint for 159) ; Soc. Ant. 

 Map 487. [Condition good, 1912. M.E.C.] 



5. (158) "Bush Barrow" just E. of last, opened by Hoare, 1808. 



Skeleton of man on floor, and about 18in. from the head, rivets 

 and strips of bronze with remains of wood, probably a shield. 

 Bronze celt near shoulders, and near right arm large flat bronze 

 dagger with 6 rivets and small tang 10|in. long with handle 

 incrusted with minute gold pins in chevron pattern, and another 

 dagger, largest ever found in Wilts 13in. long with 6 rivets, and 

 plate of gold, 1 part of sheath. Bronze knife dagger (?) under 

 right hand. On breast lozenge shaped plate of thin gold 7in. 

 long. Polished oval perforated stone hammer of fossil I'ubularia, 

 small lozenge shaped ornament of gold, and bone mountings of 

 some object, with vandyked edges. Devizes Museum. O.M. 

 54 SW. ; A.W. I. 202, PI. xxvi, xxvii ; Evans' Bronze 51, 232, 

 352 ; Evans' Stone 203, 411 ; Arch, xliii. 444, PI. xxxv. 1 ; Ixi. 

 U9 — 121, Figs. 66 — 68; Stukeley's Stonehenge 46, Tab. xxxiii ; 

 Stourhead Cat. 148— 152a, 161, 162 ; Soc. Ant. Map 488 ; W.AM. 

 xxxvii. 98 fig. [Injured by rabbits but not ploughed, 1912. 

 M.E.C.] 



6. (157) Just E. of Bush Barrow (5), opened before Hoare's time. 



OM. 54 SW. ; A. W. I. 202 ; Soc. Ant. Map. 503. [Injured by 

 rabbits but not ploughed, 1912. M.E.C.] 



7. (156) Large bell-shaped, 10ft. high, 102ft. in diam. Skeleton in 



shallow grave, with 2 gold beads, a circular disc of amber pierced 

 for suspension, jet beads, joint of encrinite, grape cup, and 

 drinking cup at feet of skeleton. O.M. 54 SW. ; A. W. I. 202, 

 PI. XXV. ; Arch, xliii. 347 ; Stourhead Cat. 280 ; Soc. Ant. Map. 

 504. [Injured by rabbits but not ploughed, 1912. M.E.C.] 



