258 Some Un- Described Articles in the Stourhead Collection. 



Laege Funereal Ubn (one of three) found in a Barrow at 

 Kingston Deveril, by Mr. Cunnington, in 1800. 



The opening of the " Flint 33 Barrow at Kingston Deverill is 

 described in " Ancient Wiltshire/' vol. i., 47-8, and in Mr. 

 Cunnington's MS. he speaks of it as having given him more 

 trouble than any he has ever opened, except the vast Long Barrow 

 at Tilshead ; as in the course of the work the labourers had to throw 

 out more than fifty loads of large flints. Of the largest of the 

 urns, which contained burnt human bones, and a bronze spear or 

 dagger head, he says, " I have preserved the fragments, and from 

 these a drawing has been made by Mr. Crocker. (See No. 1, 

 coloured drawings.) It was very large, and differently ornamented 

 from any I have ever seen."" (The above woodcut has been copied 

 from the drawing.) All that remained of the urn itself has been lost. 



This barrow, raised in a district where large flints are exceedingly 

 abundant, is chiefly composed of that material : so at Rockley, near 

 Marlborough, the barrow opened by Mr. H. Cunnington, in 1879, 1 

 is mainly formed of the large sarsen stones, which are scattered in 

 such profusion in that neighbourhood. It would appear that both 

 barrows are of the same — the Early Bronze — Period, and the sug- 

 gestion arises that this flint barrow may resemble the barrow 

 1 " Wiltshire Magazine," xix. } 68. 



