By the Rev. W. C. Lnkis. 



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yallum. An unoccupied enclosure of this kind may be seen between 

 j North Tidworth and Amesbury. On the first death occurring, a 

 1 cist was dug in the chalk, generally in the centre of the enclosed 

 area, and a mound was raised over the mortal remains, sometimes 

 of large and sometimes of small dimensions. No. 13 of the 

 Collingbourne group is an example of the latter, and other examples 

 exist on Wilsford Down where are four, and two on Lake Down, 

 amidst groups of barrows of all sizes. It is to be noted however 

 that the first interment occupied sometimes a position at some 

 distance from the centre. There is an instance of this on the 

 Amesbury Downs, where a small mound is so situated within a 

 ' fossed enclosure. On a second death occurring in the family, the 

 remains were placed on one side of the first grave, and a second 

 small mound erected. An instance of this may be seen in No. 18, 

 1 one of a group on the Everley Down, a few hundred } r ards from 

 the group I have been describing. Three other examples may be 

 seen in the group of barrows near Woodyates in the extreme south 

 of the county. On the occasion of another death, the remains 

 were placed either on the summit, as in barrows Nos. 8 and 10 at 

 Collingbourne, 1 or on one side of the central mound, (on Wilsford 

 Down three small mounds occupy the area, and a similar example 

 is met with near Woodyates,) 2 and earth heaped over the whole. 

 In course of time, by this process, the mound filled the greater 

 part of the entire area, and attained a considerable elevation. 



A construction, bearing upon this theory, was observed by the 

 late Mr. Thomas Bateman in a barrow, called " Gib hill," upon 

 Middleton Moor, in Derbyshire, where the area was found to con- 

 tain four small mounds, over the whole of which a large mound, 

 fifteen feet high, had been subsequently raised, in which was a 

 stone cist. In the four mounds, it is true, no deposit of human 

 remains was found when examined in 1848 ; the only objects then 

 met with being flint chippings, charcoal, animal bones and 



1 Thus numbered in the plan given in "Ancient Wiltshire," by Sir 

 R. C. Hoare. 



2 On Winterbourne Stoke Down, I belieye, an instance occurs of four little 

 mounds within the fosse. 



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