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59 SW. ; A. W. I. 108 plan, Station IV. [The whole area including 

 banks and ditches is under cultivation, and the lines of the entrench- 

 ment can now only be traced with some difficulty. 1913. M.E.C.] 

 Winding ditch which forms N. boundary of woods at Dinton Beeches 

 and westwards, N. of the Ox Drove, is the S. boundary of the parish. 

 O.M. 59 S W. ; A. W. I. Station IV. 



Finds, Neolithic. Very large tanged and barbed flint arrow or lance 

 head, Church Bottom 1872. Blackmore Museum. 



Finds, Bronze Age. Bronze looped palstave 1876. Blackmore Museum. 

 W.A.M. xxxvii. 134. Socketed spearhead, imperfect, 1881. Black- 

 more Museum. W.A.M. xxxvii. 144. 



Finds, Late Celtic. Bronze bow brooch, La Tene I. type. Blackmore 

 Museum. Reliquary xiv. 97 fig. 12 ; W.A.M. xxxv. 400 ./Eg'. 11. 



Roman. Inside the irregular entrenchments within Bilbury Lings or 

 Wylye Camp, all sorts of pottery, coins, bronze bracelet, iron nails, 

 querns, &c. found by Hoare. A.W.I. 108 Station IV. Inside the 

 camp, bronze bow brooch La Tene III. type, and one of 3rd cent, 

 type. Blackmore Museum. W.A.M. xxxv. 405 fig. 

 Roman Rd. Fragment of the straight road running W. through 

 Grovely, just N. of Dinton Beeches in S.E. corner of parish. O.M. 

 59 SW. 

 Deptford Farm. Roman narrow necked vase of good New Forest 

 ware found with skeleton and a " saucer-like " vessel, by pond 

 diggers 1898. Other skeletons were found at the same time. 

 Devizes xYluseum Cat. II. 228 ; W.A.M. xxxiii. 170 fig. 



YATES BUEY. 

 Barrows. 



1. Barrow in centre of village, N.E. of Church. Opened by Dean 

 Merewether, 1849. Nothing found. O.M. 27 NE. ; Proc. Arch. 

 Inst. Salisbury, 95 ; W.A.M. xviii. 331 ; Smith p. 87, VI. E. 

 IV. d. [A good deal mutilated, several large trees growing on it 

 a brick water tower 1 built on it. 1914. E.H.G.] 



2. Barrow in S.E. corner of village, E. of Barrow Lane. Opened by 

 Dean Merewether 1849. No interment found. Animal bones 

 and fragments of iron in mound. O.M. 27 NE. ; Proc. Arch. 

 Inst. Salisbury 95 ; Smith p. 86, VI. E. IV. a. 



3. 4. Two barrows close together in Barrow Field, S. of Barrow 

 Way. Opened by Dean Merewether 1849. (b) A large barrow 

 originally very high but ploughed down ; in the centre a cist 

 containing burnt bones deposited in a hollow tree coffin 4ft. 

 X 2^ft. x l£ft. thick with a bronze knife dagger 4g X ljin. 

 (c) A large barrow cut down dr. 1833 when 2 skeletons with 

 knife and metal box were found (? Saxon). Dean Merewether 

 found only a cist with burnt bones, with much charcoal and 

 pottery sherds in the mound. O.M. 27 NE. ; A. W. I. Stations 



