382 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



of Prehistoric Antiquities," which are also marked on the set of 6 inch 

 maps in the Society's Library.] 



Alton Priors. 1 . » " Adam's Grave," or " Old Adam," on Walker's Hill. 

 Length 130ft. (Mere wether) ; S.E. and KW. Chambered. Opened 

 by Thurnam in 1860. Near the east end there was a single chamber 

 built of large sarsen stones ; it had been previously disturbed, and 

 he only found traces of human skeletons, and a finely worked leaf- 

 shaped arrowhead of flint. There seems to have been a containing 

 wall round the mound, of which remains were found near the eastern 

 end, built of upright sarsen stones set a little distance apart, with 

 the space between filled in with a dry walling of oolitic stones. 2 

 This large and finely situated barrow has been a good deal disfigured 

 by the various excavations in it, and several of the large sarsens dis- 

 covered by Thurnam are partly exposed. The ditches on both sides 

 are still quite distinct, but that on the north has been somewhat 

 encroached upon by a chalk quarry. The damage in this direction 

 is, however, not likely to be continued, attention having been called 

 to it. The central ridge of the mound is still unusually sharp, a 

 feature commented on by Hoare. Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisbury, p. 98 ; 

 Smithy. 181, XII. H. viii. a ; O.M. 35, SW. ; A. W. II. 12, 29 ; Arch. 

 xxxviii. 410 i. ; xlii. 203, 230 ; W.A.M. xi. 45. 



Amesbury. 14. On Normanton Down, No. 165 of Hoare's " Normanton 

 Group," close to S. side of road from Stonehenge to Winterbourne 

 Stoke. Length 100ft. ; S.S.E. by N.N.W. Opened by Hoare and 

 Cunnington, who failed to find interments, and later by Thurnam, who 

 found the primary burial of three skeletons, and some secondary 

 burials, but beyond the reference in the summary list in Arch. xlii. no 

 account of the discoveries seems to have been published 3 ; in the MS. 

 Cat. there are however, the following entries :— " No. 240. From the 

 small long barrow No. 165 of Hoare — this dolichocephalic skull was 

 obtained in 1866 from the primary interment below a stratum of 

 black earth on the natural level. The marks of cleavage on this 

 skull are very distinct. It is remarkable that there were no bones 

 of upper or lower maxillae, or any teeth." 

 240a. Ancient British. Part of calvarium, also with distinct marks 

 of old cleavage found with portions of a third skull, apparently that of 

 a child, close to No. 240. The upper and lower jaws found with it 

 indicate an age of about 15 years. This sepulchral deposit was found 

 nearer the centre of the mound than is usual in Long Barrows, and 

 about 15ft. to the north of the opening made by Mr. Cunnington in 

 1808, and 20ft or more to the north of that made by myself in 1856. 



1 Referred to by Thurnam as " Walker Hill." 

 • The oolitic stone is foreign to this immediate locality. The same kind 



of walling with oolitic stone was found at West Kennet. See under Avebury. 

 3 This barrow is referred to by Thurnam as " Stonehenge No. 165 " in the 



list of barrows opened by himself, but is not included in his list of those 



opened by Hoare and Cunnington. Arch. xlii. 180. 



