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



54. (21) Opened by Hoare. Had been opened before. Fragments 

 of drinking cup, flint arrowhead, and worked flints. A. W. I. 211, 

 PI. XXX. ; Stourhead Cat. 173b. Hoare, however, (AW. I. 212) 

 speaks of 21 (apparently another barrow) as a wide low barrow 

 ploughed over. With the skeleton in a grave 2ft. Sin. deep, was 

 the elaborate amber necklace of 8 flat perforated tablets and 

 numerous beads and pendants, 4 discs of gold, 1 earrings, a 

 drinking cup? and reversible incense cup. O.M. 60 NW. ; 

 A. W. PI. XXXI. ; W.A.M. xxviii. 261 ; Arch. xlii. 505. [This 

 is No. 20 of Mr. Duke's Notes. W.A.M. xxxv. 586.] 



2 barrows in Starveall Plantation and one outside it at N.E. corner, 

 55—57 about | mile E. of 54 and I mile N. of the Wilsford 

 Group. 



55. (183). In centre of Starveall Plantation. Opened by Hoare. 



Burnt bones and stag's horns. O.M. 60 NW. ; A. W. I. 207. 

 [Planted and much defaced by rabbits, 1912. M.E.C.] 



56. (182) At N. end of Starveall Plantation. Opened by Hoare. 



Burnt bones in wooden box on floor with bronze dagger in 

 wooden sheath, small knife dagger, bone tweezers, and pin. 

 O.M. 60 NW. ; A.W. I. 207; Stourhead Cat. Ill, Ilia, 174. 

 [Planted and much defaced by rabbits, 1912. M.E.C.] 

 57 [57a— f]. (181) The barrow just outside N.E. corner of Star- 

 veall Plantation, the only one shown on O.M. 60 NW. of 

 Hoare's Group 181, 7 small barrows close together, " several 

 mean barrows not worthy of investigation, many had been 

 opened before," A.W. I. 207. [Two other mounds of this 

 group can be seen, but all much ploughed down, and still 

 under plough, 1912. M.E.C.] 



The "Wilsford Group," just S.W. of Springbottom Farm and \ mile 

 S. of Starveall Plantation. Hoare, Plan of Barrows on Wilsford 

 Down, A.W. I. 207, shows 18 barrows, O.M. 60 NW. 'shows 16 

 only, 58 — 73, Hoare's Nos. 1 and 6 not being shown. 



The second numbers in brackets are those on Hoare's plan of the 

 group. 



[The condition of this most interesting group is deplorable ; the 

 very fine Ring Barrows have been practically obliterated by 

 cultivation, and the planting of the wood has spoilt the rest of 

 the group, 1912. M.E.C.] 

 58. (18) Large bell-shaped barrow in wood, most westerly of the 

 group, 121ft. in diam., lift. high. Skeleton of very tall man 

 lying on floor of barrow, and at his feet a perforated stone axe- 

 hammer, flat flanged bronze celt, bone tube, and other bone ob- 

 jects, large boar's tusk, and unique bronze object like a prong. 



