410 List of the Long Barrows of Wiltshire. 



"Winterbourne Monkton. [17a.] Millbarrow, or "King's Mill Barrow." 

 This large chambered barrow formerly stood in a field to the N. of 

 Windmill Hill, Avebury, but now all trace of it has disappeared. It 

 is said to have been 215ft. in length, set round with great stones, the 

 broad end to the E. Stukeley's Abury 46 ; A. W. II. 94 ; Proc. Arch. 

 Inst. Salisbury p. 93; W.A.M. iv. 343; v. 188, note ; Arch. xlii. 211, 

 218 ; Smith p. 84, VI. F. iii. f. 

 Thurnam dug on the site of the barrow in 1863 but without result. 

 The farmer who finally levelled it only found a few human teeth, a 

 jaw bone, and some horses' teeth. Arch. xlii. 201, note d. 



Winterbourne Monkton. [17b.] The " Shelving Stones," now totally 

 destroyed, mentioned by Aubrey and Stukeley, were probably the 

 remains of a Long Barrow. Aubrey thus described them : — " In 

 Monkton Fields is a long pitched stone seven foot and more : it 

 leaneth eastward upon two stones. It is called Shelving Stone." 

 Stukeley says : — " In Monkton Fields, directly north-east from Abury, 

 is a monument of four stones, which is probably a kistvaen. . . . 

 I believe it was a sepulchral monument, set on a barrow, though 

 chiefly now ploughed up ; and that the great covering stone is luxated." 

 Hoare agreed with Stukeley, and writes : — " I perfectly agree with 

 this author in supposing it to have been a sepulchral monument set 

 on a barrow, such as those before mentioned in Clatford bottom, and 

 at Temple farm." The fact recorded by Long that no trace of bones 

 was found on the site is in no way convincing that the stones had 

 not once formed a part of a barrow ; no bones were found in digging 

 round the standing stones at Littleton Drew 1 {see Nettleton), though 

 they are indisputably part of a Long Barrow. Aubrey's Monumenta 

 Britannica, (as quoted by Long and Smith) ; Stukeley's Abury 49; 

 A. W. II. 94 ; W.A.M. iv. 343 (Long) ; Smith p. 83, VI. F. iii. e. 



Stukeley's description of Long barrows round Abury is as follows : — 

 Abury, p. 45, " There are likewise about Abury some pyriform barrows 

 longish, but broad at one end ; some composed of earth thrown into 

 a tumulus. Of this sort a very long one in the valley from Bekamton 

 to Runway Hill." (This apparently is the one referred to by Thurnan 

 as " Bishops Cannings." See Barrows no longer in existence under 

 that parish.) 



" Another set with stones among the furze bushes south of Silbury Hill, 

 which Farmer Green carried away." (This refers to the stones of 

 West Kennet Long Barrow, also called by Stukeley " South Long 

 Barrow.") 



p. 46. " Another such south of Silbury Hill." (Another reference to 

 West Kennet 1) " Another pyriform made only of earth underRunway 

 Hill." (Another reference to " Bishops Cannings " ?). "Another to 

 the south-west from Bekamton cut thro with some later division 

 dyke." (This cannot be identified.) " One very large at East 

 Kennet" (East Kennet Long Barrow, see under Kennet.) " Another 



1 W.A.M. iii. 169—70. 



