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Wiltshire Tradesman's Tokens. 



of 50 feet diameter, and about 2 feet high ; situated on sloping 

 ground on the eastern side of Oldbury Camp, about twenty yards 

 from the exterior of the camp, and due east from Lord Lansdowne's 

 obelisk. The interment, which consisted of burnt bones, was in a 

 cist 18 inches deep, and 18 inches wide, and a few feet from the 

 centre of the barrow. That it was eccentric is probably owing to 

 the materials of the barrow having gradually sunk on the sloping 

 ground. The bones were those of an adult, but no weapon or im- 

 plement was found. The urn was inverted over the ashes. It is 

 of rude early British make, is 16 inches high, and 14 inches broad 

 in the widest part. Like many others of this date, it is rudely 

 ornamented round the upper portion, with zig-zag rows of indented 

 dots, the interspaces of the angles being filled up with diagonal 

 lines of similar dots, alternately sloping to the right and left, except 

 in some instances where the workman has made some sad blunders 

 in his design, and has filled up several consecutive angles with 

 lines in the same direction. It was not turned in a lathe, and is 

 formed of coarse clay, containing minute fragments of flint. The 

 bottom of the urn was so near the surface, that a horse treading 

 on the spot would certainly have put his foot into it. Ashes of 

 wood, and fragments of bones of the domestic animals, were found 

 throughout the barrow. 



By William Boyne, F.S.A. 1 

 ppjjllgHE small coinage of England from the earliest times was of 

 $HIJ|! silver ; transactions requiring money of inferior value were 

 carried on by means of black mail, turneys, Abbey-pieces, crockards, 

 dotkins, staldings, and other base foreign currency, as well as by 



1 The following paper is extracted, with the Author's permission, from his 

 work called " Tokens issued in the 17th century in England, Wales, and Ire- 

 land, by Corporations, Tradesmen, &c. ;" by William Boyno, F.S.A. Smith, 

 Soho Square, £2 2s. Some additions have been made, from a List published 

 in 1846 by J. Y. Akerman, Esq., F.S.A. : and from some other sources of local 

 information. Editor. 



