By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 391 



in part before interment, the head of one tibia being in apposition 

 with the malleolus of the other, though lying side by side. The 

 primary interment in this barrow (which is in sight of Stonehenge) 

 though lying towards the east, was much nearer the centre than 

 usual, 1 and was only found (after making four distinct excavations) 

 about 55ft. from the east end, the entire length being 150ft. The 

 skeleton was in the usual stratum of dry brown earth, the bones and 

 especially the skull being remarkable for their peculiarly eroded 

 character. Within ljft. to the east of the skeleton was an oblong 

 hole or cist in the chalk rock, 2ft. 9in. (long?) and 1ft. deep, with 

 nothing in it but dry brown earth." The secondary interment was 

 " about a foot below the surface, about 40ft. from the east end of the 

 same barrow ; the skeleton was in a moderately contracted posture, 

 with head to N.W. Near the hips a fine drinking cup of red ware 

 much broken, but since restored." 



The whole of the central part of this barrow has been carted away, 

 leaving practically only the fringe of the mound. This most regretable 

 destruction seems to have been perpetrated during the last four or 

 five years by the military on the Plain, apparently for the purpose of 

 making a shelter hut. O.M. 54 N W. ; A. W. I. 176 ; Arch. xlii. 180, 

 184, 197, 198; Bull, de la Soc. d'Anthrop. 2 S. ii. 357, GT7,fig. Men. 

 Anthrop. Soc. iii. ; MS. Cat. 233—4. 



This is the barrow referred to by Thurnam as " Figheldean." 



Pittleton. 2 5. On Weather Hill, S. of Everley and W of the old 

 Marlborough — Salisbury Road. Length about 150ft. N.E. and S.W. 

 Opened by Thurnam, who does not seem to have published any 

 account of the excavations beyond that in the summary list in Arch. 

 xlii. The following entry, however, appears in the MS. Cat. : — " 255. 

 Ancient British. Part of a very dolichocephalic calvarium obtained 

 from the north broad end of a long barrow on Fittleton Down, near 

 Chidbury Camp, Oct. 6, 1866. The barrow had been previously 

 disturbed. There were indications of one skull only, and that ap- 

 parently a female. Remains of Bos longifrons and horns of Cervus 

 elephas ? scattered." 

 The barrow stands on an uncultivated down in good condition with 

 well defined ditches. It shows where it has been dug into, no doubt 

 by Thurnam . This barrow is referred to by Thurnam as " Fittleton." 3 

 O.M. 48 N W. ; A. W. I. Map of Everley Station ; Arch. xlii. 180 ; 

 MS. Cat. No. 255. 



1 See Warminster 6. 



2 This is not the barrow opened by Wm. Cunnington in 1851, referred to 

 in W.A.M. xxviii. 172. For that see below, List of barrows now destroyed, 

 under Fittleton. 



3 Hoare shows two Long Barrows lying near each other on Weather Hill 

 but there is no trace of the second barrow to be found now, and only one 

 is shown on the O.M. As the down does not appear to have been under 

 recent cultivation this was possibly an error of Hoare's. 



