THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULTOEUM MANIBUS GBANDE LEVATtTE ONUS." — Ovid. 



June, 1914. 



LIST OF THE LONG BAEEOWS OF WILTSHIEE. 



By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 



[Referred to in the previous List of Prehistoric Antiquities, pp. 153 — 378, 

 as " Appendix, Long Barrows."] 



This list of Wiltshire Long Barrows, includes all those known 

 to the writer, and it is hoped that it is fairly complete, but there 

 may be a few small ones that have escaped notice, It is not always 

 possible from the Ordnance Survey maps to decide whether a 

 barrow is round or long, and to visit all the barrows in Wiltshire 

 would be indeed a very great labour. All those included in this 

 list have been visited within the last year or two, and a note made 

 on their present condition. Many other barrows as to which it 

 was doubtful whether they should be included in the " Long " 

 barrow class, have also necessarily been seen, and none have been 

 included that do not appear to be genuinely of that class, and in 

 cases where there may still be a doubt that could only be dispelled 

 by excavation, mention has been made of the fact. 



Sir E. Colt Hoare, in Ancient Wilts, (as in vol. I., p. 169, barrow 

 118), sometimes speaks of a barrow as a " long barrow " referring 

 apparently to its general shape only, when from the context it is 

 clearly not one of this class, and these have not been included in 

 the list. 



It appears that there are 72 Long Barrows, or remnants of Long 

 Barrows, still in Wiltshire, and that 14 others have been destroyed 

 ; VOL. xxxviii. — no. cxxi. 2 c 



