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view to discovering whether it was a barrow or not. Accordingly on 

 October 2nd, 1913, I spent the day with him at Preston, and with a 

 couple of labourers we dug a trench into the top of the mound where 

 the ground had sunk. After digging some 4ft. down through what 

 appeared to be quarry refuse we came to a horizontal layer of dark 

 earth which extended all over the top and seemed never to have been 

 moved. This appeared to be the original level of the ground on which 

 debris had been piled up. We therefore concluded that the mound 

 had been formed in the course of quarying and was not for the most 

 part artificial. It seemed of no use to dig further down from the top, 

 and the workmen were set on to dig out the fox earth at the spot on 

 the side where the skull had been found. We soon came on odd pieces 

 of human bones evidently dug out by animals which had inhabited the 

 earth, and then on the leg bones in situ. We followed these carefully 

 into the mound and found practically the whole skeleton of a man 

 except the head, lying at full length on his back, his hands at his sides 

 or by his hips. The head, as has been said, had been previously dug 

 out by the badgers or foxes. Nothing whatever was found with the 

 skeleton which could throw any light on the date of the interment, 

 which may have been Roman, Saxon, or medieval — the bones were 

 brittle and decayed— but cannot have been, from the position of the 

 body, earlier than Roman. Ed. H. Goddard. 



Bronze Objects found in Wilts not previously re- 

 corded. 



Awl, found just above a burnt interment in centre of a disc barrow in 

 Shalbourne close to the boundary of the parish, on edge of Great 

 Botley Copse, opened 1910, by H. T. E. Peake and O. G. S. Crawford. 



A single rivet was found amongst the debris in the same barrow near 

 the interment. Both these objects are in Newbury Museum. 



Socketed looped spearhead with narrow blade, found on Berwick S t. 

 John Down, 1905. 



Socketed looped spearhead, found in Tinkley Coppice, Rushmore, 

 Berwick St. John, 1900. Both the spearheads are in Brighton 

 Museum. I am indebted to Messrs. O. G. S. Crawford, F.S.A., and 

 H. T. E. Peake for information concerning these objects. 



Small socketed bronze spearhead without loops, found by gravel 

 diggers at Knowle Farm Pit, just under the surface, has been 

 secured (Oct. 1913) by Mr. B. H. Cunnington for the Devizes Museum. 

 It has a very pronounced midrib, hollow almost to the point, with 

 narrow blades, the edges of which have been a good deal broken 

 away. The socket, also, is broken off. Its present length is 3fin. 



Bronze socketed looped spearhead, found at Lavington ? in possession 

 of Mr. Wadman, of Ogbourne St. Andrew (teste Mr. Rendell, of 

 Devizes, 1914). 



