By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S. 215 



The second was a long- barrow (marked d. in plan ; see also d. C. v. 

 North Wilts Map), opened in 1864. An account of this is in the 

 Wiltshire Magazine, vol. xiii. The measurements of the skulls, as 

 given by Dr. Thurnam, 1 are, for the male 68 — decidedly dolicho- 

 cephalic — and for the females 71 and 74 respectively. That with 

 the index 74 must have been a remarkable-looking' old lady, the 

 teeth on both sides having long been lost; with the curious exception 

 of the right wisdom tooth, which still remains, though much worn 

 down. It may be mentioned that the sarsen stone meal-rubber 

 found here is the only one as yet discovered in a Wiltshire fo^barrow. 

 It is 5|in. in length. 



The third barrow was situated to the south. It was but slightly 

 raised above the surface of the down. The workmen reached its 

 contents in the course of their flint-digging, and found a skeleton 

 and a drinking-cup, besides which, as they said, " there wur a bit 

 of ould brass" (probably a fragment of a bronze knife or dagger), 

 near the skeleton. Beyond this nothing is known of the details. 

 They scattered the bones amongst the flint heaps, and preserved 

 two small fragments only of the cup. The spot was afterwards 

 very carefully searched, and other fragments of the cup were found, 

 sufficient to make a good restoration. It is of the high-brimmed 

 globose type of drinking-cup, with much ornamentation, though it 

 is but a very irregular example of " freehand." There are five rows 

 of chevrons of triple lines of dots, two on the upper and three on 

 the lower or bulb part of the cup. Between these are two rows of 

 diamonds, some of them formed of parallel lines, some of three 

 diamonds one inside the other, some of lines crossing obliquely, 

 whilst in another part, this ornament suddenly changes into large 

 irregular zig-zags. The lines have apparently been produced by 

 pressing on the clay a thin piece of wood or bone, having small 

 notches cut on the edge. The cup is 6£in. high by him, in diameter. 



In 1858 the writer gave instructions to Henry Green, 2 flint- 

 digger, to excavate some hollows which appeared to be traces of 



1 " Memoirs of Anthropolog. Soc." L, 473. 

 s Several of the objects named in the following list were obtained from the 

 same workman, having been dug up by him in or near the camp. 



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