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



Earthworks. Small oblong enclosure on E. side of track N.W. of Down 



Barn, 1 mile N . W. of Winterbourne Gunner Church. O.M. 60 SE. ; 



not in A. W. I. Station V. South. 

 Finds, Bronze Age. Bronze palstave 5jin. long, looped but loop not 



pierced in casting, in possession of Mrs. Cowan, of Purse Caundle, 



Dorset, 1912. W.A.M. xxxvii. 61 3, 634. 

 Roman. The Portway, Old Sarum to Winchester. The line of the Rd. 



from Winterslow Corner westwards for J mile forms boundary of 



parish. O.M. 67 NW. ; A. W. EI. 46 plan. 



WLNTEEBOUBNE MONKTON, 

 Barrows. 



Windmill Hill. [See also Avebury, to which half of the hill belongs.] 

 [Barrows 1—4 under grass, 1913. M.E.C.] 



1. Large bowl-shaped barrow inside the entrenchment, the top lowered 



before Dean Mere wether's time. Seven skeletons, fine grape 

 cup, and perforated stone axe-hammer found. Devizes Museum 

 Cat. II. X 23, X 23a ; O.M. 28 N W. ; Smith p. 89 VI. F. IV. b ; 

 Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury, 93, \0S,fiys. 3, 4 ; Evans' Stone, 166 ; 

 Arch. Journ. vii. 399 ; Arch, xliii. 364, i /m?. 47. 



2. Large high bowl-shaped barrow inside the entrenchment, no ditch. 



Opened, no record. O.M. 28 N W. ; Smith p. 89. VI. F. IV. c. 



3. Barrow just outside the ditch on the E. Large wide barrow. 



Opened, no record. O.M. 28 NW. ; Smith p. 89, VI. F. IV. d. 



4. [4a.] On E. slope of hill outside ditch, 2 disc barrows with ditch 



and outer bank, but no tump in centre ; apparently not opened. 

 Only 4 shown in O.M. 28 NW. ; Smith pp. 89, 90, VI. F. IV. i. k. 



On Monkton Down, W- of Ridgeway, close to Avebury boundary, 

 O.M. 28 NE. shows 2 barrows (5, 6), Smith shows 3, all close 

 together. Smith p. 132, X. H. IV. f. g. h. 

 5, 6, [6a.] (f. g. h.) Three barrows close together, (f) the northern- 

 most a bowl barrow conspicuous on brow of hill, surrounded 

 with stones, no ditch. Opened, no record. 



(g, h) Two low almost invisible barrows. 



N.W. of the last, on Down \\ mile E. of Winterbourne Monkton 

 Church, a group of 10 barrows, 7 — 16, of which 7 — 10 were 

 opened by Dean Merewether 1849. The numbers in brackets are 

 his. 7 — 9 lie close together below the 700ft. contour line, the 

 most south-westerly of the group. 



(24) Bound barrow. Animals' bones and teeth, sarsen rubber, 

 and charred wood only. O.M. 28 NW. ; Smith p. 126, X. H. 

 III. a ; Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury p. 104. 



