Extracts from the Register in Christian Malford Church. 347 



Scattered throughout the general mass of the barrow were nu- 

 ll merous bones— chiefly broken and splintered — of the usual domestic 

 animals, ox, deer, sheep, and hog. There were also fragments, of 

 an ancient British drinking cup, of an urn of about the same period, 

 and of a small bone needle or pin. 



The barrow is of early date, and if the two incremated burials 

 are the only interments, its history is simple, indeed — but there is 

 some doubt whether the skill of four archaeologists, and the efforts 

 of five stout labourers were not after all baulked in the attempt to 

 find the original interment. The occurence of concentric layers of 

 | chalk-rubble near the centre, is in favour of the supposition that 

 there had been another — a primary — burial. 



WlLLLIAM CtJNNINGTON. 



11, Gauden Road, S.W. 



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HE following curious extracts from the register books of 

 Christian Malford Church, were made, by kind permission 

 j of the Rector, at the time of the Society's visit, in August, 1882 : — 



" Memorandum y* on y e 27 th of January 168f Thomas Persons (alias Seagar) 

 | Henry Prise, William Bovy, y e Widdow Ryley, Bridgeat Bernard & her two sons 

 George Bernard & John Bernard were y 11 denouns'd exconiunicate by an order 

 I from y e Reverend M r . Robert Woodward, Archdeacon of y e Archdeaconry of 

 i North Wilts for not repairing to their Psli Church by me 



"James Cooke, Cur" 



recorded as found in Wiltshire; though "flint saws" arc common elsewhere, 

 particularly in Yorkshire, where as many as fifteen fine examples have lately 

 been discovered in one barrow. 



