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which ilioro is no published record, so far as I know, is said tra- 

 ditionally in the parish to have produced " a small saucer." I 

 reopened it in September, 1855, and found an empty cist. It is a 

 small mound in the centre of a circular enclosure which is sur- 

 rounded by a fosse and vallum. This is not an un frequent form 

 of grave mound on the Wiltshire Downs, to which I shall refer later. 



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Plan of Barrow, No. 4. 

 Showing trenches, (T) and number and positions of interments. 

 A. Primary interment. 



No. 4, was examined in 1855, and a trench was dug on the east side 

 towards the centre. At a depth of seven feet, and in the centre of 

 the mound, in a cist dug out of the chalk, was a skeleton on its 

 right side, with the legs drawn up, lying 1ST.W. and S.E., the head 

 being in the direction of the former point. The individual must 

 have been about 5 feet 10 inches in height, as ascertained from the 

 length of the skeleton as it lay. The bones were in excellent 

 preservation, and although they were carefully uncovered, no right 

 arm, and no hands were found. There was no jar or relic of any 

 kind, but only a small fragment of coarse pottery, rudely marked, 

 near the head. When the body was interred, it appears to have 



