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latter feature exists it may be taken as a sure sign that the mound 

 is a true Long Barrow ; but unfortunately cultivation and other 

 causes, have often obliterated this most sure indication, so that in 

 some cases, where other evidence is lacking, there must remain 

 a doubt as to the true character of the mound, But in some cases, 

 especially in • the stone-built mounds, there seems never to have 

 been a ditch. 



On the other hand, where the ditch is obviously continued round 

 the ends of the mound, there can be little doubt that the barrow is 

 only an oval, or multiple round one, and all mounds that have these 

 ■continuous ditches, but that otherwise look like "Long" Barrows, 

 have been rejected from this list. 



The barrows are listed alphabetically under the names of the 

 parishes in which they are situated. This method has some diffi- 

 culties, but it seems the only possible way to classify mounds that 

 are, as a rule, nameless, and have no distinctive features by which 

 they may be distinguished. Under each barrow references are 

 given to the original sources of information, but the details of the 

 discoveries that have been made in them are lacking in many cases. 



kThe following abbreviations have been used : — 

 0.jJf.r=Ordnance Map ; the number in every case is of the Wiltshire 

 Sheet of the 6in. scale. 

 A. W.=" Ancient Wiltshire," by Sir R. Colt Hoare. 

 Arch.— 1 Archosologia." 

 W.A.M.~= Wilts Archaeological Magazine ; the reference is to the volume, 



not the number as published. 

 Smiths" British and Roman Antiquities of North Wiltshire" by the 



Rev. A. C. Smith. 

 MS. Cat. This refers to a MS. Catalogue compiled by Dr. Thurnam 

 of the Thurnam Collection of Skulls, now at Cambridge. A large 

 number of these skulls came from Wiltshire barrows, and in several 

 cases the entries give information, or further details, in reference to 

 the discoveries in the barrows that are not included in Dr. Thurnam's 

 published notes. I am indebted to the courtesy of Professor 

 Macalister and Dr. W. L. H. Duckworth for permission to consult 

 the catalogue, and to make extracts therefrom. 

 After the length of the barrow, its direction is stated, the larger end of 

 the mound being always put first ; thus " S. and N." means that 

 the larger end is to the south, and " N. and S. " the reverse. 



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