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Winterbourne Stoke. 1 1. At the cross roads on the Winterbourne 

 Stoke— VVilsford parish boundary. No. 1 of Hoare's Winterbourne 

 Stoke Group. Length 240ft. (Thurnam); N.E. and S.W. Opened 

 by Thurnam in 1863. Under the highest part of the mound he found, 

 either on or below the floor " the remains of the original interment, 

 viz., the skeleton of a man laid on its right side, with the knees drawn 

 up in a closely contracted posture, and the head to the S.W. Close 

 to the right arm lay a natural bludgeon-shaped flint, about 8in. long, 

 well adapted for being grasped in the hand ; from one end numerous 

 flakes have been knocked off." A secondary burial of six crouched 

 skeletons was found, about 2ft. from the surface of the mound, and 

 with them an empty vase of very coarse British pottery and an oval 

 flint knife. 

 This barrow is down to grass and in a good state of preservation ; 

 but it has been disfigured on the N.W. side, where a few years ago 

 they began to utilise the mound as a quarry for chalk. 2 O.M. 54 

 SW. ; A.W. I. 121 ; Arch. xlii. 180, 194, 197 ; Mem. Anthro]x Soc. i. 

 140 ; MS. Cat. Nos. 159, 162 (in reference to the skull of the primary 

 and three skulls of the secondary burial). 3 

 Winterbourne Stoke. 53. On Winterbourne Stoke Down. Hoare's 

 No. 3. Length 104ft. ; E. and W. Opened by Hoare and Cunnington. 

 They found a large pile of flints that had been "imbedded in a kind 

 of mortar made of the marly chalk dug near the spot " ; the flints 

 were " raised upon a floor, on which had been an intense fire, so as 

 to make it red like brick." Under the flints were " several pieces of 

 burnt bones intermixed with the great masses of mortar, a circum- 

 stance extremely curious, and so novel, that we did not know how 

 to decide upon the original intent of this barrow." Hoare expresses 

 some doubt as to whether they had found the primary interment. 

 This barrow is a rather shapeless mass, wide and flat ; the ditches 

 are ill defined. Hoare says " that it has been much mutilated, partly 

 by former antiquaries, and partly by cowherds or shepherds, who 

 had excavated the eastern end by making huts for shelter." O.M. 

 54 S.W. ; A. W. 1.117. 

 Compare Kill Barrow, under Tilshead. This barrow is not included 

 in Thurnam's list of Long Barrows opened by Hoare and Cunnington. 

 Arch. xlii. 180. 

 Woodford. 2. S. of Druid's Lodge, on the E. side of Devizes — Salisbury 

 Road, and about one- fifth of a mile S. of 6th milestone from Salisbury. 

 Length 64ft. ; S. and N. No recorded opening, but it looks as if it 

 had been dug into in more than one place. It is short and broad, 

 and lies on a steep slope on an uncultivated down ; the ditches are 

 fairly distinct. On the O.M. it appears as an almost round barrow. 

 O.M. 60 SW. ; Arch. xlii. 173, note b. Not shown by Hoare. 



1 This is the barrow referred to by Thurnam as " Winterbourne Stoke." 



2 About 1900, see W.A.M. xxxii. 175. 

 3 Thurnam speaks of one of these skulls as " one of the most brachycephalic 

 British skulls yet described." 



