the Downs of North Wiltshire. 



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person, and with them a small bead of bluish glass and three larger 

 ones with a pendant, all of jet. 



16. In the most eastern, at the depth of a foot, was an urn of 

 coarse red earth, holding from one to two gallons, and filled with 

 burnt human bones ; the mouth inverted on a rough flat stone. The 

 urn was broken, but has been restored sufficiently to show its form 

 and size. On each side of the urn there is a deep crack, and on 

 each side of the cracks are neatly bored holes, evidently made for 

 the insertion of thongs or cords, by which the urn might be held 

 together and the further extension of the cracks prevented. The 

 two intermediate mounds had been previously opened ; but in one 

 of them was a circular chipped disc of flint, such as, though un- 

 usual in the Wiltshire barrows, are common in those of Yorkshire 

 and Derbyshire. 



Three low barrows, between St. Anne's Hill and Milk Hill, on 

 the escarpment of the downs close to Wansdyke, were examined ; 

 in the first of which a few scattered bones of ruminants, and in the 

 third, traces of incinerated bones were alone met with. 



17. In the second, at a depth of two feet, were bones and teeth 

 of sheep and oxen; at three feet two small pieces of deer's horn 

 and a fragment of coarse black pottery, and at four and a half feet, 

 two circular cists scooped out of the chalk rock, a foot or two apart, 

 each two feet and a half in diameter. These were filled with grey 

 ashes, with no distinct trace of burnt bone. Deposits of this kind, 

 to the exclusion of interments, properly so called, have before been 

 found in the barrows of Wiltshire, and are termed cineraria in the 

 descriptions of Sir R. C. Hoare. 



On Walker's Hill, Alton-Priors Down, near the very large 

 long barrow, by which it is distinguished, 1 are three small mounds ; 

 two of which disclosed marks of interment after cremation; they 

 had been previously opened. The smaller one was not examined. 



11. A small barrow, under cultivation, somewhat more to the 

 west and not more than a foot in height, presented no trace of in- 

 terment, after careful investigation. 



To the east of Walker's Hill is Knap Hill, having on its sum- 



1 Anoient Wilts, vol. ii. pp. 12, 46. Salisbury Vol. of the Arch. Inst. p. 98. 



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