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secondary interments, which were extensively searched for. There 

 was no stratum of black earth, but under the eastern apex, on the 

 floor of the barrow, was a confused mass of skeletons spread over a 

 space about 8ft. long and 3ft. broad. Above these the flints were 

 larger and more numerous, and mixed with an occasional small block 

 of sarsen stone and of the ' Warminster burr ' of the upper greensand. 

 The portions of skulls indicated at least 18 skeletons, though whether 

 they had been buried here entire seemed doubtful from the small 

 number of the long bones. Of the 18 I computed 8 of males, 5 of 

 females, and 5 children. So far as can be made out, all were decidedly 

 dolichocephalic, and 9 of the more perfect calvaria which have been 

 preserved (at Cambridge) have a cephalic index varying from '63 to 

 '73, and averaging '68. The only other relics found with these human 

 remains consisted of a round battered nodule of flint weighing 3f lbs., 

 the greater part of a curious rude shallow vase of black pottery with 

 two handles. The paste is mixed with particles of small fossil oyster 

 shells from the tertiary clay beds, it is thought of Hampshire. 

 There was also one large horn of red deer with the human remains. 

 The broken vase was in their midst, and had probably been deposited 

 entire, though no part of the base was found. The flint nodule lay 

 close to one of the skulls, nearly all of which present traces of having 

 been broken, some of them perhaps with this very nodule. One 

 skeleton lay rather apart from the others to the north, and the skull 

 of this is the most perfect of the series, and remarkable as presenting 

 no trace of having been cleft. The lower jaw is nearly perfect, the 

 upper too much decayed to be restored. Excavated June 8th, 1866." 

 This fine barrow stands on uncultivated down land ; the ditches are 

 very well defined, and contrary to the usual rule are slightly longer 

 at both ends than the mound itself. The mound shows in several 

 places where it has been dug into. O.M. 52 NW. ; A. W. I. 67 ; Arch. 

 xlii. 180, 182, 184, 194—5 ; Bull, de la Soc. d' Anthrop. 2 S. ii. 357, 677, 

 fig. ; Mem. Anthrop. Soc. iii. 71 ; MS. Gat. 245—253. This is the 

 barrow referred to by Thurnam as "Norton Bavant. 



Norton Bavant. 14. On Middleton Down, N.E. of Middle Hill, and 

 N. of Scratchbury Camp. Length 84ft. ; S.E. and N.W. No recorded 

 opening. It is planted with young trees and thickly covered with 

 undergrowth; the ground' round it is under cultivation, and the 

 ditches have been obliterated. It has probably been shortened by 

 ploughing round it in former years. O.M. 52 N W. ; A. W. I. 67. 



Preshute. I. 1 On MantonDown, S.W. of Rockley, and N.W. of Manton 

 House. Length 57ft. ; S.E. and N.W. Chambered. The chamber 

 seems to have been uncovered, and probably rifled at some unknown 

 period. Hoare speaks of the barrow as " a small long barrow, covered 

 with heath and furze, having a fallen kistvaen at the east end. The 

 mound appears to have been set round with stones." The Rev. A. C. 

 Smith also describes it as being so covered with heath and furze as 



1 This barrow was referred to by Thurnam as " Rockley." 



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