68 Ancient Stone-Work on Langley Burrell Common. 



At Highfield, near Salisbury, are some singularly-shaped dwellings 

 in drift gravel, resting on chalk, models of which are in the County 

 Museum j they are described in " Flint Chips/' by E. T. Stevens 

 (page 57). 



The antiquities from the Beckhampton dwelling-pit are placed in 

 the County Museum, and form an interesting group. 



Common/ 



: ANGLE Y BURRELL lies north of Chippenham, some 

 portion of that town being contained within the area of 

 trnTparish. A mile from Chippenham the high road runs over a 

 common of eighty acres (now enclosed), which occupies the centre 

 of a table-land. The rectory house stands on the eastern edge of 

 the common, and is connected with the high road by a drive 

 running along a raised terrace. A large stone, marked a on Eig. 1, 

 standing just above the turf, projected an inch or two into the drive. 

 It had attracted notice for many years, and had provoked many 

 questions, but no one knew anything about it. Old men remem- 

 bered another stone, I. Lest an accident might happen by a wheel 

 striking upon the stone a, on a dark night, it was thought prudent 

 to remove it. In January, 1886, an attempt was made to raise it. 

 Then followed the discovery that, in connection with it w T ere other 

 stones, six or seven deep, set up in parallel vertical courses, which 

 were carried in irregular curves north and south, rounding outwards 

 and downwards to a depth of 2ft. Further examination showed 

 that the general form of the whole work was that of an imperfect 

 ellipse, from 2ft. to 3ft. broad, the eastern half being much more 

 regular in its curvation, and the stones laid in better order than on I 



1 The Committee desires to acknowledge its obligation to the Rev. C. Clarke, 

 for the illustrations which accompany this paper. [Ed.] 



