By the Rev. W. C. Luhis. 



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been walled about and covered over with large flints, and then the 

 vegetable mould was heaped up, and constituted the original grave- 

 mound with a diameter of about 70 feet. At subsequent periods 

 other interments followed, producing an enlargement of the bar- 

 row ; the present diameter being about 96 feet. It was not until 

 the year 1861 that a further examination of this mound was made 

 by the Rector of North Tidworth and myself. The experience we 

 had derived in the examination of other barrows having led to 

 discoveries of an interesting nature, we resolved to apply the pro- 

 cess to this barrow. It may be as well to state here the mode 

 which was adopted by us. We first dug a wide trench from the 

 south point to the centre, and in some cases beyond the centre, and 

 next we carried trenches east and west from the south side, at a 

 few feet from the base of the mound. The advantages gained by 

 this method were these. It gave us a section of the barrow, a 

 matter of considerable importance ; it enabled us to meet with the 

 original interment, when, as in many cases, it was eccentric; and 

 it brought to light a series of interments in positions where they 

 have not been commonly observed in Wilts. In addition to this, 

 it revealed a certain degree of orientation in these secondary inter- 

 ments, in relation to the primary one, which was quite constant. 

 After digging for a distance of about 13 feet from a point a little 

 to the west of south in a direction eastwards, at a few feet from the 

 base of the mound, meeting occasionally with fragments of pottery 

 and a portion of a grinding trough, we found an interment of burnt 

 bones at the spot marked 1. At 2, we came to a large urn inverted, 

 (plate iii. fig. 1) containing the burnt bones of a large man. 1 The urn 

 was placed on a mass of pounded chalk, and a dry walling of large 

 flints was built round it to serve as a protection. The bottom of 

 this vessel was about one foot below the surface. Not far from it, 

 at 5, was a considerable quantity of burnt bones. At 7, was an 

 urn smaller than that at 2, also containing burnt bones, on its 

 side, with the mouth pointing up the mound, within three inches 



1 The ornamentation on this urn consists of a projecting band of clay, in which 

 circular depressions have been made with the top of the finger ; the cast of the 

 nail is seen in some of them. Similar markings have lately been observed on 

 some other "Wiltshire urns. [Eds.] 



