On British Stone and Earthworks 



us to examine the barrows at Rockley on Thursday next, Mr. 

 William Tanner), I enlisted the help of my friends, Mr. Lukis 

 (then my colleague as one of the Secretaries of this Society) and 

 Mr. Spicer, Rector of Byfleet, in Surrey, and on June 12th, 1861, 

 we proceeded to excavate the stone chamber. With regard to the 

 formation of the exterior part of it, whether it was originally covered 

 with one or more roofing slabs, and whether it had a covered passage 

 leading to it, we were unable to form any decided opinion, owing to 

 the confusion of stones and its generally dilapidated condition : but 

 we found a sepulchral chamber, guarded by a circle of upright stones, 



Rough Sketch of Plan of Chamber. 



some of them in position ; and on the floor of this chamber indica- 

 tions of a layer of charcoal, calcined human bones, and fragments of 

 coarse pottery : we found also several unburnt bones, portions of a 

 human skull and teeth ; some of the bones of a hand and foot ; and 

 above all a well-formed and perfect bone chisel (now in our Museum 

 at Devizes), of which a sketch is annexed. We then examined the 

 narrow space between the two parallel upright stones, and at B found 

 unburnt bones of a. hand and foot and fragments of pottery, and at 

 C portions of a human skull and teeth, and a stone muller or rubber. 

 The orientation of this chamber was probably east and west. A 

 report of this examination was forwarded by Mr. Lukis to the Society 

 of Antiquaries in January, 1866, and appears, with illustrations of 

 the bone chisel, in their proceedings of that year. I have in the 

 foregoing description availed myself of Mr. Lukis' account : and it 



