By Mr. Cunnington. 



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the barrow, and about eighteen inches below the turf a skeleton 

 was discovered, but without any weapon or other relics. This is 

 certainly a secondary interment. It had been previously disturbed, 

 as the bones were broken and lying in much disorder, and the 

 cranium had been altogether removed. Some fragments of the 

 lower jaw with teeth, prove it to have been an adult. 



At forty-five feet from the eastern end of the barrow is a large 

 oblong cist, ranging from west south-west to east-north east. It 

 is five feet eight inches in length, by two feet five inches wide, and 

 two feet deep, having a long ledge or step along the northern side. 

 Large as is this cist, it contained only a small heap of incinerated 

 bones, and piled up close by, the following articles: — two neatly 

 grooved whetstones of coarse silicious sandstone, and a large whet- 

 stone of the same material; a flat piece of sandstone, which has 

 evidently been used as a whetstone; a well made flint arrow head; 

 a small flint knife ; sundry flint flakes ; a small bronze spear head, 

 having decayed wood adhering to it, probably the remains of the 

 sheath ; a long instrument, like a netting needle, formed of deer's 

 horn, and pointed at one end; a portion of deer's horn, cut flat at 

 both ends, as if to form the handle of some instrument or weapon ; 

 three oblong pieces of bone, neatly smoothed, one of them bevelled 

 off at the ends, and a quartz pebble. This pebble was not obtained in 

 the immediate neighbourhood, and the whetstones are of a material 

 not found in this county. In the earth, with which the cist was 

 filled up, were numerous flint flakes, and some fragments of pot- 

 tery. The incinerated bones are those of an adult, beyond this 

 fact nothing can be ascertained as to the characteristics of the in- 

 dividual. 



The western end of this barrow was not examined till August 

 1858, on which occasion the Rector of Devizes was present. The 

 former interment having been found at a distance of forty-five feet 

 from the eastern end of the barrow, we marked off the same dis- 

 tance from the western end, and commenced by digging a shaft. 

 Immediately below the turf, evidences of human occupation of the 

 spot were abundant ; fragments of pottery, flint flakes, and bones of 

 ox, sheep, dog, and other domestic animals were dispersed through- 



