380 List of the Long Barrovjs of Wiltshire. 



within the last, hundred years or so. 1 There were, therefore, at one 

 time at least 86 Long Barrows in Wiltshire. These are, or were, 

 strictly within the present administrative boundary of the county, 

 hut if we include the area within the county boundary, when 

 Hoare made his survey, we should add at least 5 more. 2 



17 of the Long Barrows are known to have been opened by Dr. 

 Thurnam between the years 1855 and 1868; 19 by Hoare 3 and 

 Wm. Cunnington in the beginning of the 19th century (8 of these 

 re-opened by Dr. Thurnam are not included in the above 17) ; 4 

 have been opened by other excavators, and 32 have not been opened, 

 or if so, there is no record of it. 



Out of the 40 opened, the results of which are more or less 

 known, in 32 cases burials of one or more skeletons were found 

 near the larger end of the barrow, and in 5 of these the bones had 

 been burnt or partially burnt (Old Ditch and Kill Barrow at Tils- 

 head, Winterbourne Stoke No. 53, Bratton, and Knook); in 7 the 

 primary burial does not seem to have been found, and in one case 

 (Lanhill) it was not at the larger end of the mound. 



Dr. Thurnam's list of 11 chambered barrows for the county re- 

 mains unaltered, except that it is very doubtful if the one referred 

 to by him as " Oldbury " should properly be included {see under 

 Cherhill). 



The outward characteristics of a " Long Barrow " are that it is 

 long in proportion to its width, that one end is considerably broader 

 and higher than the other, and that a ditch, or trench (usually 

 wider than the ditches of round barrows) is found on both sides of 

 the mound, but never running round the ends. Wherever this 



1 This does not include 3 unidentifiable Long Barrows mentioned by 

 Stukeley in the neighbourhood of Avebury. 



2 These are Grans Barrow and Knap Barrow, only about a hundred yards 

 apart, on Knowle Hill, one in the parish of Rockbourne, the other in Toyd 

 Farm and Allenford parish : Round Clump Barrow in Whitsbury parish, 

 near Great Yews ; Giant's Grave on Breamore Down close to the Maze, in 

 the parish of Breamore ; all now in Hants. One now in Dorset in the parish 

 of Martin, close to and north of Bokerly Dyke. 



3 One of these was opened after the publication of Ancient Wilts. See 

 under Nettleton. 



