A Description of three Barrows. 



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" Tlie differences between this ancient monument and the Abury 

 circle are plain enough. The works at Walton are more complicated 

 and more easily traceable, partly because the earth thrown out of 

 the ditch is here formed into a little bank or mound, partly, perhaps, 

 because the vegetation is different and less likely to level up the 

 ground than at Abury. The limestone rock comes to the surface in 

 many places at Walton, and the banks contain — as does indeed the 

 whole surface of the down — numerous fragments, but there are no 

 appearances of stones set down on purpose. At the same time the 

 similarities are very striking, and they are evidently of one and the 

 same family of monuments ; the presence on Walton Down of 

 that little circle to the west, so exactly recalling the two which are 

 plainly though faintly observable at Abury, is to say the least of it 

 a remarkable coincidence. I do not think that any archaeologist 

 who may have gone away from Abury with some little doubt in his 

 mind as to whether a circle really has existed there, could continue 

 to entertain any such doubt, after having seen that on Walton Down." 



A DESCRIPTION OF 



to ^ararte <%mir ott i\t mwmw of 

 i\t Wkxt of % Miltsjire gxdj^ologtcat miir 

 Jattttat Jbtorg ^otictg to Ipatlborott^ 



AUGUST, 1879. 



f|£l|§iHE first of these barrows is situated in a plantation on the 

 Ifijll estate of W. H. Tanner, Esq., of Kockley, the other two 

 are close by, on Ogbourn Down, on the estate of R. P. Tanner, 

 Esq. It has often been remarked that the barrows on the north 

 side of Wansdyke appear to have been constructed by a race more 



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