By the Rev. E. H. Goddard. 373 



Truckle Hill Barn, excavated 1859, 1860, by G. Poulet Scrope. Villa 

 180ft. X 36ft. 16 rooms, baths, hypocausts, stone bath. Well exca- 

 vated to depth of 68ft. Many parts of columns, capitals, roof finials, 

 &c, found in it, now at Castle Combe Manor. 60 yds. away four or 

 five tombs, in one a large stone coffin (at Castle Combe). Remarkable 

 crescent ornament of two boars' tusks with bronze mount (British 

 Museum). Fragments of pottery, glass vessels, marble wall veneer, 

 bronze nails, earpick, armlets, key, statuette, coins, &c. Devizes 

 Museum Cat. II. 417—451 ; O.M. 19 SE. ; Gent. Mag. 1860, Pt. II. 

 157 ; W.A.M. vii. 59^s. ; Lewis' Hist, of N. Wraxhall 166. 

 Large stone coffin found here in 18th cent., destroyed. Hist, of N. 

 Wraxhall 166. 



WKAXALL, SOUTH. 



Earthworks. The Roman Road and Wansdyke combined form N. 

 boundary of parish throughout. O.M. 25 SE. ; 32 NW. ; A.W. 

 II., Roman Mra 16—30, 73 plan. 



WROUGHTON. 

 Barrows. 



1 — 3. Barbury Castle. 3 small barrows close together at foot of hill 

 on W. side of camp, just on N. edge of track descending from 

 camp, and just W. of track which cuts it going S. to Rockley. 

 0. M. 22 SE. Smith p. 191 XIII. K. I. k, 1 shows 2 only (1 & 2), 

 low bowl-shaped barrows, one opened, no record, the other not 

 opened. Hoare A. W. II. 41 mentions 2 round barrows, but they 

 are not shown in Stations XI. XII. 



4. Large disc-shaped barrow on W. slope of hill on the 800ft. contour 



line, under the camp, N. of track through camp, E. of 1 — 3. 

 Apparently opened, no record. O.M. 22 SE. ; A.W. II. 41, not 

 in Stations XL XII. ; Smith p. 191 XIII. K, I. c. 



5. N.E. of the last a small bowl-shaped barrow just outside N.W. 



rampart of camp. O.M. 22 SE.; Smith p. 191, XIII. K. I. d. ; 

 not in A. W. II Stations XL XII. 



6. 7. | mile N.E. of camp just W. of Rd. 2 large bowl-shaped barrows 



close together, much ploughed down. Opened, no record. O.M. 

 22 NE. ; Smith p. 191, XIII. K. I. g, f . ; A. W. II. Stations XL XII. 

 [7 a — c] A. W. II. Stations XL XII. marks 3 barrows near together 

 on "Ufcot Down," S.W. of Barbury Castle and S. of Ridge way. 

 In Wroughton or Preshute 1 Not in O.M. 22 SE. 

 [The barrow mentioned by Hoare A. W. II. 41, Stations XL XII. as 

 on " Down belonging to Elcombe " is apparently in Preshute 1] 

 Earthworks. Barbury Castle (half in Wroughton, half in Ogbourne St. 

 Andrew), one of the finest and strongest of Wiltshire camps. Oval, 

 double ramparts. Area 12^ acres, circuit 880 yds. Entrances E. & W. 

 with outer works covering the former. O.M. 22 SE. ; A. W. 11.41, 

 PI. VIII. plan, Stations XL XII. 



