386 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



Bishops Cannings. 44. " Kitchen Barrow," on Kitchen Barrow Hill, 

 S. of Wansdyke. Length 107ft. ; width at broad end 64ft. ; N.E. and 

 S.W. Opened by Thurnam, who found skeletons at the N.E. end ; 

 they seem to have been previously disturbed, but no details 

 are given. This barrow stands at the extreme end of an outstanding 

 spur of the down, overlooking the Vale of Pewsey. The mound is 

 very broad at one end, and tapers off very narrow at the other. The 

 ditches are quite distinct and untouched, but the mound is in a very 

 untidy and disturbed state ; near the wide end there has been a 

 considerable excavation never filled in, and in it a large sarsen stone ; 

 in addition to this hole much of the material of the mound has been 

 taken away. The Rev. A. C. Smith speaks of " much broken ground 

 all about, and many pits, as if of hut circles." These, however, 

 appear more like old diggings, either for hard chalk or flint, than 

 "hut circles," and it seems probable that the material from the 

 barrow was carted away when this digging was going on. This 

 barrow is almost certainly the one referred to by Thurnam as 

 " Horton." O.M. 34 NE. ; Arch. xlii. 180 ; Smith p. 114, VIII. E. 

 viii. h. 



Bishops Cannings. 65. On Easton Down, N". of Wansdyke. Length 

 132ft. ; E. and W. Opened by Thurnam. It had been previously 

 dug into, and Thurnam only found the scattered remains of four 

 individuals (two male adults, and two young persons) near the E. end 

 and a few chippings and fragments of sarsen stones. This barrow 

 stands on uncultivated down, and is a conspicuous object from the 

 road by Beckhampton. The mound has been rather disfigured by 

 the diggings into it that have never been properly filled in ; the ditches 

 are distinct. Some rubble seems to have been taken away from the 

 edge of the mound on the S. side. This barrow was referred to by 

 Thurnam as " Easton Hill." O.M. 34 NE. ; A. W. II. Map of 

 Marlborough Station ; Arch. xlii. 180 ; W.A.M. vi. 323 ; Smith p. 

 112, VIII. E. vii. g. 

 For Long Barrow in Bishops Cannings parish, now destroyed, see end of 

 this list. 



Boyton. 1. " Corton Long Barrow," on Barrow Hill. Length 216ft- 

 (Hoare) ; E. and W. Opened by Wm. Cunningto n 1804 ; beneath a 

 large heap of flints, marl stones, etc., at the E. end eight skeletons 

 were found " lying in several directions, as though they had been 

 thrown on a heap without ceremony." Seven were those of adults, 

 and one of a child from seven to eight years of age. A secondary 

 burnt burial in a cinerary urn had previously (1801) been found at 

 the W. end by the same explorer. The mound had been reduced in 

 size by the plough even in Hoare's time, and since then it has been 

 reduced still more, and is now only 120ft. in length. Then, as now, 

 it appeared almost as two round barrows from earth having been 

 taken away from about the middle of the mound for agricultural 

 purposes. There are beech trees of considerable age growing on the 



