396 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



appears in the MS. Gat.: — "No. 236. Ancient British. From a 

 long barrow much degraded by the plough in the parish of N etheravon, 

 and about \ a mile from the one in the parish of Figheldean. Ex- 

 cavated by Dr. Thurnam, Sept. 21, 1865. Near the east end and about 

 a foot below the surface on the chalk rock were the broken scattered 

 bones of one or perhaps two skeletons from which I picked out the 

 fragments from which this calvarium has been restored, also the 

 lower jaw almost perfect. With these was the cleft fragment of a 

 second skull, and a portion of a small female jaw." 



The mound is now very low, flat, and broad, and the ditches indistinct. 

 It is turfed, and looks as if it had been down to grass for many years. 



O.M. 54 N.W. ; A. W. I. Map only, of Amesbury Station; Arch. xlii. 

 180 ; MS. Cat. 236. 



Nettleton, 1. "Littleton Drew Barrow," 1 or " Lugbury," on the 

 Nettleton — Littleton Drew parish boundary. Length 185ft. (Hoare) ; 

 E. and W. A chambered, stone-built barrow, with two large upright 

 stones and a third large flat stone leaning up against them, near the 

 E. end of the mound. In 1821 Hoare 2 cut a trench 150ft. in length 

 down the mound to the west of the standing stones, and found a 

 burial of a single crouched skeleton on the floor of the barrow about 

 30ft. from them, with a small pointed flint implement. After this 

 the field came under cultivation, and in 1854 a stone cist or chamber 

 was brought to light by the plough, and subsequently Mr. Poulett 

 Scrope, the then owner, made a " complete examination " of the 

 mound, when three other chambers, all on the south side, were found. 

 In these there were nine, seven, and ten skeletons respectively, the 

 fourth chamber being empty. 

 The field is now down to grass, but the mound has been much spread 

 about by cultivation, and the ditches are scarcely discernible. O.M. 

 19 NW. ; A. W. II. 99, Roman JEra, 101—2; Arch. xlii. 200, 203, 

 209 ; W.A.M. iii. 164 (Thurnam) ; Cr. Brit. PL 24 ; Gent. Mag. 

 1822, xcii. 160 ; Hoare 's MS. (Devizes Museum), Pt. I. p. 160; MS. 

 Cat. 56—65. 



Norton Bavant. 13. On Norton Down. Length 180ft. : E. and W". 

 Opened by Thurnam, and the following note is from his MS. Cat. : 

 " The barrow chiefly of chalk rubble appears to have contained no 



1 As Dr. Thurnam remarks both Aubrey and Sir B. C. Hoare connected 

 the barrow with Littleton Drew rather than with Nettleton, because they 

 had'an idea that the name "Drew" had some Druidical connection. 



2 Sir B. C. Hoare opened this barrow after his second volume of An. Wilts 

 was published, and his account of the work is contained in a letter from him 

 to the Gentleman's Magazine for 1822, referred to above; practically the 

 whole of this letter is reprinted as an appendix to Poulett Scrope's History 

 of Castle Combe (-p. 391). The fullest account of the barrow and of its con- 

 tents is to be found in the paper by Thurnam in the Wilts Arch. Mag., also 

 referred to above. 



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