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it has no resemblance to a " Long " barrow, but in deference to Hoare, 

 who saw it in a more perfect condition, it must be regarded as one. 

 It is of great size, and level on top, and now looks more like a " motte " 

 mound than anything else. It is shown by Hoare as unopened, and 

 as lying S. and N. O.M. 52 SW.; A. W. I. Map of Wylye Station. 



Tidcombe with Fosbury. 1. " Tidcombe Great Barrow," about \ mile 

 S. of Tidcombe. Length 195ft. ; according to Lukis 188ft. ; S. and 

 N. Chambered. Opened by country people in search for treasure 

 about 1750 (Arch. viii. 91, note i.) who found a chamber at the E. end 

 built of large sarsen stones, and it is said, containing only one skeleton. 

 Opened again by the Rev. W. C. Lukis and Dr. Thurnam 1 without 

 apparently further result. 

 This once fine barrow has been much injured ; a large cutting has been 

 made through the mound from end to end, and never filled up ; 

 several large sarsen stones (that once formed the chamber?) are ex- 

 posed at the southern end. The ground is under cultivation up to 

 the fringe of the mound, and there is no sign of the ditches visible 

 on the surface. O.M. 43 N" VV. ; A. W. 187 (this is only an incidental 

 reference, and the barrow is not marked on the map of Everley 

 " Station," but there are two round barrows shown in its place). 

 A. W. ii. Roman JEra, 69, and Map of Roman Road, p. 67 ; Arch. 

 viii. 91, note 1 ; xlii. 203, 229; W .A.M. viii. 155 (Lukis). 



Tilshead. 1. " Kill Barrow," on the Tilshead — Ohitterne All Saints 

 parish boundary. Length 170ft. (Thurnam) ; S.E. and N.W. Opened 

 by Thurnam in 1865.' At one time Thurnam believed this not to be a 

 true " Long " barrow, but an oval one of the Bronze Age ; but he 

 subsequently changed his opinion and compared its unusual features 

 with those of the Long Barrow, Winterbourne Stoke 53 (Hoare's 

 No. 3). " Both . . . yielded deposits of burnt bones covered and 

 intermixed with a substance resembling mortar, many of the bones 

 being tinged of a green colour. At Kill Barrow it was clear that 

 several bodies had been burnt very imperfectly, some of the bones 

 being merely charred. Others were stained a brilliant • green and 

 blue, but chemical tests yielded no traces of copper. Under a pile 

 of a white friable substance like half-dried shelly mortar, were curious 

 masses of a sort of ossiferous breccia ; the burnt human bones, black, 

 white, blue, and green, being closely cemented by calcareous matter. 

 I am now convinced that both are Long barrows, and not Oval ones, 

 as I had supposed." The MS. Cat. gives some details that may not 

 be published elsewhere : — " The primary interment consisted of piles 

 of burnt bones on the floor of the barrow at the east end. One of 

 these to the east of the other, would have about filled a peck ; the 

 other, 6ft. or 7ft. nearer the middle of the barrow, was in much greater 

 quantity. These burnt bones were some of them curiously [mixed] 



1 This barrow is not included among the list of those opened by Thurnam 

 Arch. xlii. 180. 



