388 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



Calne Without. 1. About \ of a mile W. of Cherhill Monument. 

 Length ? E. and W. The remains of a long-shaped mound, much 

 cut about at both ends by stone diggers ; perhaps the remnant of a 

 Long Barrow ; nothing seems to be known of its history. O.M. 27 SE. 

 For the barrow also near Cherhill Monument, referred to by Thurnam 

 as " Oldbury," see under Cherhill. 



Cherhill. la. Just outside the ramparts of Oldbury Camp, W. of the 

 monument, on the Cherhill — Calne Without parish boundary. Length 

 60ft. ( Wm. Cunnington 1 ) ; E. and W. This barrow has been practically 

 destroyed by flint diggers, only a confused heap now remaining. During 

 this digging in 1864 some human bones were found, and Wm. 

 Cunnington visited the spot and further examined the mound- 

 Three skeletons were found " lying with their heads towards the E. 

 in a large shallow grave surrounded by small blocks of sarsen 

 stone." 2 A second grave was found empty, and in the mound 

 a worn mealing stone of sarsen (Devizes Museum Cat. II. X. 

 96a) and charcoal. O.M. 27 SE. ; Arch. xlii. 203, 218; Mem. 

 Anthrop. Soc. I. 473; W.A. M. xiii. 103 (Cunnington); Smith p. 50, 

 III. C. v. d. : MS. Cat. No. 198. 

 The barrow is not shown on the O.M. The site may be found 

 by prolonging the curve of the ditch of the outer rampart of the 

 camp to the point where it cuts the parish boundary, just N. of the 

 track. This barrow is referred to by Thurnam as " Oldbury." 



Chippenham. 1. " Lanhill Barrow," on Barrow Hill, sometimes called 

 "Hubba's Low." Length about 160ft. (Thurnam) ; E. and W. 

 chambered. This large stone-built barrow has been long used more 

 or less as a quarry. In 1855 Thurnam made some excavations in it, 

 and found two chambers with remains of skeletons, but they seem 

 to have been previously disturbed. In 1909 a chamber was acci- 

 dentally discovered by men digging stone from the mound ; it was 

 built of six large slabs of stone, with the spaces between them filled 

 in with dry walling, and a corbelled roof of. similar stones. Lying in 

 a confused heap within the chamber were the remains of not fewer 

 than eleven individuals. Steps have been taken to protect this 

 chamber, and it may be seen still intact. 

 Thurnam's description, written in 1866, of this once fine barrow, applies 

 to it equally well to-day. " At present the mound has the appearance 

 of several irregular hillocks, in part grown over with thorns and 

 briars, resembling somewhat the site of an old quarry." O.M. 19 SE ; 



1 To avoid confusion it is perhaps as well to explain that there are two 

 William Cunningtons referred to in this list. The elder and contemporary 

 of Sir R. Colt Hoare died in 1810, the younger, who was his grandson, 

 died in 1906. 



■ Thurnam has included this among his list of chambered barrows, but 

 this account by Wm. Cunnington, who himself examined the mound, hardly 

 seems to justify its description as a " chambered " barrow. 



