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Barrows on Roundway Hill 



a skeleton, lying from north to south, but without any accompani- 

 ments either of arms or trinkets/' 



On re-opening the barrow, the skeleton as mentioned by Mr. 

 Cunnington was found at the bottom of the cist, and with it a 

 halfpenny deposited there when it was formerly opened. The cist 

 is of oval shape, the longer axis is 6 feet 8 inches in length, 

 the direction east and west. Some fragments of an Ancient Brit- 

 ish drinking cup were found in it. The skull was unfortunately so 

 much broken that its characteristics cannot be determined. Suffi- 

 cient however remains to show that the person here interred was a 

 young man, in height somewhat above the middle stature. The 

 length of the thigh bone, 19 in. f, would indicate a stature of 

 about 5 feet 10 inches. This bone is remarkably slender in pro- 

 portion to its length. The tumulus is about fifteen or eighteen 

 inches high, above the level of the Down. Its diameter is about 

 twenty-eight feet. 



Barrow No. 5, on "Windmill Knoll," is a circular barrow, forty 

 feet in diameter and three and a half high. This was opened by 

 Dr. Thurnam, but without result. There was a small cist, but it 

 contained no bones, nor were there any signs of an interment. It 

 was evident that it had been previously opened, but there is no re- 

 cord of its history. 



Barrow No. 6. This is the long shaped barrow near Mr. Coward's 

 farm buildings, on the further side of the hill. It is an irregular 

 oval, with an indistinct hour-glass contraction in the middle. It 

 was as first supposed to be a "long barrow," properly so called, but 

 subsequent investigations have proved that it is formed by the fill- 

 ing in of the space between two adjoining round barrows. It is 

 surrounded by a fosse about eighteen inches deep. The length is 

 one hundred and thirty-four feet; the greatest width is ninety-five 

 feet. The general direction of the barrow is about east and west. 

 Its greatest height above the surface of the chalk is seven feet, in 

 the depression in the middle the height is five feet. 



A longitudinal trench was commenced from end to end of the 

 tumulus, and numerous fragments of pottery, bones of sheep, ox, 

 &e. were found, also a small iron spike. Near the highest point of 



