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Now dowD to grass, but it was formerly under cultivation and has 

 been much levelled and flattened. Not on O.M. 43 N W. or in A. W- 



Sherrington. I. 1 Sherrington Barrow, about \ mile E. of Sherrington 

 Church, and about 100 yards | south of the River Wylye. Length, 

 according to Hoare, 108ft., at present 86ft. ; W.N.W. and E.S.E. 

 (Hoare). Opened by Wm. Gunnington in 1804,when iseveral secondary 

 interments were found, but no primary interment. Re-opened by 

 Thurnam and the Rev. A. Fane in 1856 without further result. This 

 mound has suffered much injury in the last 100 years from cultivation 

 and other causes. It seems too high to have been ploughed over, but 

 ploughing round it has |much reduced its size. There is a large 

 crater-like hole at the east end, and the whole surface of the mound 

 is irregular, much cut about, and untidy looking ; the field is now 

 down to grass; there is no sign of ditches. On the O.M. it appears 

 as an almost circular mound, as now in fact it is. O.M. 58 NE. ; 

 A. W. I. 100 ; Arch. xv. (Gunnington, 1805) ; xlii. 180. 



Sherrington. 4. On the Boyton — Sherrington parish boundary, S. of 

 Boyton Church, E. of Boyton Field Barn, on a conspicuous ridge of 

 down. Length 150ft. ; E. and W. No recorded opening. It is shown 

 on Hoare's Map of Wylye Station (S. of the village of Boyton) as 

 opened, but there seems to be no mention of it in the text. It is 

 not included in Thurnam's list of long barrows opened by Hoare and 

 Cunnington, and there is only an incidental mention of it in Wm. 

 Cunnington's account of " Barrows opened on the Manors of Corton, 

 Boyton, and Sherrington " {Arch. xv. 338) although a sketch of the 

 barrow is given on PL ~K.V~L.fig. 2. Only the fringe and a few feet 

 at the western end of the mound remain, but it must once have been 

 a very fine barrow, and very conspicuously situated. The mound 

 appears to have been wide and high for its length, the width at the 

 east end being now 64ft. It stands on cultivated ground with no 

 trace of the ditches above ground. Labourers on the spot stated 

 that the material of the mound had been taken away from time to 

 time to mend the adjacent trackway. O.M. 58 NE. ; Arch. xv. 340, 

 PL VI. fig. 2 ; A.W. I. Map of Wylye Station. 



Stockton. 1. "Stockton Barrow," N. of Stockton Works, S. of Sher- 

 rington Clump. Length about 120ft. ; nearly N. and S. Opened 

 by Hoare and Cunnington, who presumably found skeletons, as 

 Hoare only says " a long barrow, which we opened, and found similar 

 to those of the same class." It stands on ploughed ground, but the 

 barrow itself does not appear to have been cultivated ; it is planted 

 with trees but otherwise in good condition, and the ditches are still 

 distinct. O.M. 58 SE. ; A. W. I. 107 ; Arch. xlii. 180. 



Sutton Veny. 2. In grass field to the N.N. W. of the old Church of St. 

 Leonard. Hoare shows a " Long " barrow in this position. The 

 O.M. shows it as a large circular mound, and in its present condition 



1 This is the barrow referred to by Thurnam and Hoare as " Sherrington.' 



