392 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



For Long Barrows in Fittleton parish now destroyed see end of this 

 list. 



Grafton. 5. On Wexcombe Down, to the N.E. of Jubilee Plantation. 

 Length 83ft. N. and S. In excellent condition, standing on unculti- 

 vated down land, and apparently unopened ; the ditches are unusually 

 well defined and end abruptly at both ends of the mound in the 

 orthodox way. The mound is rather flat and broad, with one or two 

 depressions in it that may mark the place of interments— perhaps 

 secondary ones. It appears rather as an oval mound on the O.M., 

 and does not seem to have been previously noticed as a " Long " 

 barrow. O.M. 43 N.W. 



Heddington. 3. On King's Play Down. Length 101ft. ; N.E. and S.W. 

 Opened 1907 and found to cover one crouched skeleton of typical 

 " Long " barrow character. Turf, in good condition, with well-defined 

 ditches. The skull, etc., in Devizes Museum. O.M. 34 N W. ; A. W. 

 II. Map of Calne and Swindon Stations ; W.A.M. xxxvi. 311 ; Smith 

 p. 62 IV. A vii. c. 



Heytesbury. 1. " Bowl's Barrow," on Salisbury Plain overlooking the 

 Wylye Valley. Length 150ft. (Cunnington, 1801); E. and W. Opened 

 by Wm. Cunnington 1801 ; he found several secondary interments, 

 and " at the base of the barrow was a floor of flints regularly laid, 

 and on it the remains of several human bodies deposited in no regular 

 order. It appeared therefore that they had been thrown promiscuously 

 together, and a great pile of stones raised lengthways along the centre 

 of the barrow over them." At this time fourteen skulls were counted. 

 Later Wm. Cunnington made a second attempt both at the E. and 

 W. ends ; at the former he found the heads and horns of seven or 

 more oxen and a large cist (or grave) close to the skeletons. Re- 

 opened by Thurnam, 1864, who found the remains of the skeletons 

 as left by Wm. Cunnington. He also found a secondary interment 

 of a skeleton "near the summit of the tumulus — probably of the 

 Anglo-Saxon period." MS. Cat. 214. Again opened J 885 — 6 by 

 Wm. and Henry Cunnington, who found some skeletons of the 

 primary interment hitherto undisturbed, in all six skulls. 

 This barrow has unfortunately suffered much disfigurement of late years. 

 A pond has been made close to the edge of the mound, obliterating the 

 ditch on the north side, and a large and unsightly iron tank has been 

 erected on the eastern end of the mound. It is much to be regretted 

 that this fine barrow should have been so defaced. O.M. 52 NE. ; 

 A. W. I. 87 ; Arch. xlii. 180 ; W.A.M. xxiii. 1 18 ; xxiv. 104 ; Natural 

 Review, 1865 ; MS. Cat. 210—214. 



Heytesbury. 4. On Heytesbury North Field, E. of Scratchbury Camp, 

 and N.E. of Cotley Hill. Length 160ft. ; S. and N. Opened in 1800 

 by Wm. Cunnington without success, and again later when, as well 

 as the usual stratum of black earth, he found near the south and 

 broad end " the remains of a great many human skeletons crossing 



