By Mrs. M. E. Cunnington. 411 



not far off points to the Snake's Head Temple, being at a right 

 angle to the former." (This cannot be identified unless it be the 

 twin barrow Avebury 30a referred to below.) " By Horslip Gap is 

 another considerable long barrow of a large bulk, length, and 

 height ; it regards the Snake Head temple though here not in sight." 

 (This cannot be identified.) 



"By Bekamton Cove another, a vast body of earth." (This is the 

 Longstone Barrow ; see under Avebury.) 



Stukeley then describes Milbarrow {see " Barrows now Destroyed," 

 under Winterbourne Monkton ; and " South Long Barrow " (West 

 Kennet), which latter he says is 180 cubits in length. 



Again on p. 47 he describes a Long Barrow at Old Chapel, on Temple 

 Down, now destroyed {see under Preshute), and on p. 49 the Shelving 

 Stones, and the Devil's Den. 



Of the 11 barrows here mentioned by Stukeley only 4 remain, namely, 

 East and West Kennet, Longstone Cove, and the Devil's Den ; of 

 Milbarrow, " Old Chapel," The Shelving Stones, andBishops Cannings 

 we have some mention by other writers, but of the other three there 

 seems to be no record except that of Stukeley himself. 



The following 5 barrows, thought by Hoare and others to have been 

 true " Long " Barrows, have now been proved not to be so. 



Avebury. 30a. On the Map of Calne and Swindon Station Hoare shows 



tan unopened Long Barrow E. of Avebury Temple, and W. of the 

 Ridgeway ; it is also shown on the O.M. 28 SW. This is really a 

 twin barrow enclosed within one ditch, and was opened without 

 success by Dean Merewether in 1849. Proc. Arch. Inst. Salisb. p. 91. 

 Smith, p. 148, XI. H. v. f. g. 



Brixton Deverill. 1. Between Bidcombe and Cold Kitchen Hill, Hoare 

 shows as opened a long barrow close to and S. of three small round 

 ones. This is shown on O.M. 57 N.W., as on Whitecliff Down, east 

 of a rectangular earthwork, and south of Woodcombe Wood. The 

 mound was opened by Wm. Cunnington in 1803, when he "found 

 pieces of an urn, burnt bones, and a pin or bodkin, mixed indiscrimi- 

 nately with the soil," p. 40. It was re-opened by Mr. Wm. Stratton, 

 of Kingston Deverill, in 1893, and again in 1893, with the assistance 

 of the Kev. E. H. Goddard. A considerable quantity of pottery and 

 other relics, chiefly of Romano-British date, were found, and parts of 

 two skeletons near the surface of the mound, but nothing to identify 

 it as a Long Barrow. It stands, indeed, on the site of an ancient 

 settlement, and the mound seems to consist largely of rubbish from 

 the settlement. O.M. 57 NW. ; A. W. I. 40 ; W.AM, xxvii. 379. 



Round way. 5. In A. W. II., Map of Calne and Swindon Station, Hoare 

 shows a Long Barrow N.of Roundway Hill, and E. of Oliver's Camp. 

 This is really a double barrow and was opened by Wm. Cunnington, 

 F.G.S., in 1858. O.M. 34 NW. ; W.AM. vi. 162 (No. 6). 



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