By the Ven. Archdeacon Macdonald. 



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The assessment to the poor is £8642 4s. 4d. The average rate of 

 18s. lOd. the last three years was £1001 

 Population of Southbroom, 2300. 



Wages are low, frequently not exceeding seven or eight shillings 

 per week, but in order to help the married labourer, a considerable 

 portion of land has been set apart by the late landlord, Mr. Estcourt, 

 and divided into lots of twenty perches, more or less, for which a 

 very moderate rent is exacted, and for the most part very regularly 

 paid. A good deal of piece-work is also done, to the great advan- 

 tage of the labourer; who also receives double pay for part of his 

 harvest work. Nor should it be forgotten that the poor man pays 

 for his cottage much less rent than is paid in those districts where 

 wages are higher. From £2 to £2 10s. per annum is the ordinary 

 rent in this parish. 



Though the climate be cold, and the subsoil damp, this is on the 

 whole a healthy parish, and has been particularly improved by 

 draining. Rheumatism is the prevailing complaint among the 

 aged ; and scrofulous affections are too common. The deaths 

 average a fraction above 2 per cent, of the population. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE 



^itcient §ri&| attir ^n%lo*$mn §iittote 



ON ROUNDWAY HILL, IN THE PARISH OF BISHOP'S 

 CANNINGS. 

 By Mr. Cunnington, F.G.S. 



jEVEN Barrows have been opened on this spot. — The first, 

 No. 1, (see map p. 160) was opened in 1855, by Mr. Coward and 

 Mr. Cunnington, and again in 1856. A considerable section was 

 made, but nothing found except a fragment of burnt bone, and a 

 piece or two of broken pottery. It is a circular and somewhat 

 flat barrow, about forty feet in diameter and one foot in height. 



Barrow No. 2 is described in the Wiltshire Magazine, vol iii. 

 p. 185. 



Barrow No. 3 is situated close to, and on the south side of the 

 large chalk pit. It is thus described by the late Mr. Cunnington, 



