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Milston. 39. On Milston Down, near the Hants border, close to, and 

 N. of new military road from Bulford to Tedworth. Length 173ft ; 

 E. and W. No recorded opening. Fine mound with well-defined 

 ditches. The ground round it, though now down to grass, was for- 

 merly under cultivation, but the barrow itself does not appear to 

 have been cultivated. It is now badly infested by rabbits that have 

 disfigured it a good deal. There is a distinct berm, or level space, 

 between the inner edges of the ditches and the fringe of the mound.' 

 O.M. 55 NW. ; A.W. I., Map of Everley Station ; Arch. xlii. 171. 



Milston. 40. On Milston Down, close to the last. Length 87ft ; 

 E. and W. No recorded opening. This smaller barrow lies parallel 

 with, and only 52 yards, measured from the nearest edges of their 

 respective ditches, N. of the preceding one. Its ditches are quite 

 evident, but the whole barrow seems to have been under cultivation 

 for a short time ; it is now down to grass. It has, like the last, 

 suffered much dilapidation from rabbits. It is unusual to find two 

 Long Barrows close together; these two are the closest on record. 

 O.M. 55 NW. ; Arch. xlii. 171. Not shown by Hoare. 



Milton Lilbourne. 7. 2 "Giant's Grave," on Kyneld Down, S. of the 

 village of Milton Lilbourne. Length 315ft. (Thurnam); E.N.E. and 

 W.S. W. Opened by Thurnam in 1865. " On the natural level, near the 

 east end, a heap of three or four skeletons was found, the only perfect 

 skull from which is of a remarkably long and narrow form. One of 

 the other skulls had been forcibly cleft before burial. The only 

 object found with the skeletons was a finely-worked leaf-shaped 

 arrowhead of flint, close to one of the skulls." 



Thurnam also says " A moderately wide trench runs along each side, 

 but is not continued round the ends of the barrow." There is now 

 really no sign of a ditch on the S. side ; on the N. side it is quite 

 evident, and very irregular in shape ; there is also the very unusual 

 feature of a slight but distinct counterscarp on the outer edge of this 

 ditch. 3 



A very fine barrow and placed in a commanding situation overlooking 

 the Vale of Pewsey. In perfect preservation except for a large hole 

 at the E. end, no doubt not filled up after Thurnam's excavation. 

 O.M. 42, NW. ; A.W. I. 190; Arch. xlii. 180, 182, 194; Proc. Soc. 

 Antiq. 2 S., III. 170 ; W.A.M. xi. 47 ; MS. Cat. 225. 



Netheravon. 6. On Netheravon Down, E. of Netheravon Bake, N.E. 

 of the clump of trees known as Robin Hood Ball. Length 111ft. ; 

 S.S.E. and N.N.W. Opened by Thurnam, who does not seem to 

 have published any account of his discoveries beyond that in 

 the summary list in Arch. xlii. The following entry, however, 



'This is an unusual feature that occurs in only a few other of the Wiltshire 

 Long Barrows. See Brixton Deverill 2 and 7. 



2 This barrow is referred to by Thurnam as " Fyfield." 

 3 I have never noticed this feature in any other Long Barrow. 

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