THE 



WILTSHIRE 



3rrl)iwiiginil unit Untitrnl listt 



MAGAZINE. 



No. LY. AUGUST, 1880. Vol. XIX 



Contents* 



PAGE 



Account of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting, at Mael- 

 bobough 1 



The Tempoeaey Museum „ 23 



Sayebnake Fobest : By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A 26 



"On Bbitish Stone and Eaethwobks on the Maelbobough 



Downs " : By the Rev. A. C. Smith, M.A 45 



A Descbiption of Theee Baebows Opened on the occasion of 

 the Visit of the Wiltshibe Abch^ological and Natueal 

 Histoby Society to Maelbobough, August, 1879 : By H. 



Cunnington, Esq 67 



Some Steay Notes feom the Maelbobough Couet Books, Temp. 



Heney VIII. : By R. W. Merriman, Esq. (Town Clerk) 75 



Coins found neab Maelbobough: By the Rev. C. Soames.... 84 



The Echinus ob Sea Uechin : By the Rev. T. A. Preston 89 



On Some Uses of Flint Implements : By S. B. Dixon, Esq., F.Gr.S. 96 

 The Royalist Rising in 1655 (from the Original Thurloe State Papers 



in the Bodleian) : By Sir G. F. Dnckett, Bart., F.S.A 103 



DlSCOYEEY OF TWO GbAVES CUT IN THE SOLID CHALK ROCK AT 



Bboad Hinton : Communicated by the Rev. John A. Lloyd 109 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Map of Savernake Forest 39 



Rough Sketch of Plan of Chamber in a Barrow on the 



Marlborough Downs 52 



Bone Chisel, found in a Barrow on the Marlborough 



Downs 53 



Plan of Stone Circle one mile south of Silbury 57 



Ancient British Barrow at Rockley (Section, &c.) 68 



Urns found at Ogbourne and Rockley 68 



Leaf -shaped Arrow-head, found in a Barrow at Ogbourn 70 



Flint Knife or Scraper, found in a Barrow at Ogbourn 71 



Facsimile of Entries in the Marlborough Court Books 76 



DEVIZES : 

 H. F. Bull, 4, Saint John Stbeet. 



