By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 383 



The impression made by the appearance of the deposit was that the 

 bodies had been dismembered and the skulls more or less shattered 

 and broken before their final interment in this place where they 

 were found." 



"241. Ancient British. From the same barrow, about a foot beneath 

 the surface and nearer to the S. end than Nos. 240 and 240a. No 

 other part of the skeleton, nor even a trace of jaws or teeth, was 

 found with the calvarium, which was of a dark earthy colour when 

 found. It is probably Ancient British of the dolichocephalic Stone 

 Age of Long Barrow type, and brought here after the partial com- 

 pletion of the tumulus." 



"242. Ancient British. From a secondary interment of a boy or girl, 

 12 or 15 years of age, ljft. deep in the same barrow. The skeleton 

 was doubled up, with head to the south. There was no relic of art 

 with the skeleton, but 2ft. deeper another and also brachycephalic 

 skeleton, also doubled up. The skull was too imperfect to be pre- 

 served. There was likewise part of a tibia of Bos longifr-ons, and an 

 entire skeleton of a goose, all these above the stratum of black earth. 

 Exhumed April 28th, 1866." 



Mound and ditches in very fair condition, but both are now beginning 

 to be attacked by rabbits. Turf. O.M. 54 S W. ; A. W. I. 206 ; Arch. 

 xlii. 180; MS. Gat. 240—2. 



Amesbury . 42. 1 Close to, and parallel with, the E. end of the " Cursus," 

 near Stonehenge, Length 265ft. (Thurnam) S. and N. Opened by 

 Thurnam who regarded it as a true Long Barrow, but Hoare and 

 Stukeley seem both to have thought otherwise. Stukeley shows it 

 merely as a bank (Stonehenge Tab. III.). Hoare spoke of it thus " The 

 head (of the Cursus), which is towards the east, is marked by a mound 

 of earth, resembling a Long Barrow, which extends across the whole 

 Cursus." The Cursus, Hoare regarded as the " Race course of the 

 Britons," and on the mound he suggests the " spectators were seated, 

 and a more eligible post could not have been chosen." Thurnam 

 never seems to have published any account of his discoveries in the 

 mound, and the only mention of it is that in the Summary List in 

 Arch, xlii., where it is stated that secondary burials, but no primary 

 one, were found. 

 The following is an entry in the MS. Cat. " No. 234 : — Ancient British. 

 From a secondary interment in the Long Barrow at the east end of 

 the ' Cursus ' near Stonehenge. I see no reason to doubt this 

 mound being a true Long Barrow, though like some others it lies N. 

 and S., with the broadest end to the S. There are still traces of the 

 ditch at each side. It measures 265ft. long, 55ft. to 70ft. broad, and 

 4ft. high. It is named by Sir R. C. Hoare as ' a mound resembling 

 a Long Barrow.' The skeleton from which this brachycephalic 

 calvarium was taken was lying within a foot of the present surface, 



'This is the mound referred to by Thurnam as " Stonehenge," " Cursus." 

 i Arch. xlii. 180. 



