By the Rev. W. C. Lakis. 



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Section of Barrow near Windmill Hill, Collingbourne Ducis. 

 Snowing Cist and position of Urns. 

 a a Ground level. 



On the slope of the hill, on the left of the road leading from 

 Everley to Ludgershall, soon after you have crossed the Colling- 

 bourne and Tidworth road, you may perceive three small low bar- 

 rows near to each other, and in a line running nearly east and west. 

 They have been greatly reduced in elevation by the plough, and 

 were examined by me in December, 1857. In the westernmost 

 one, at a depth of one foot from the apex, I found a thick layer of 

 wood ashes and charcoal, in which were a few burnt human bones, 

 covering a space of about four feet in diameter. Under this layer 

 was a circular hole dug in the chalk, fourteen inches in diameter 

 and one foot deep, containing burnt human bones and charcoal. 



In the middle barrow was a similar layer of charcoal, covering 

 a hole two feet in diameter and two feet deep, filled with burnt 

 human bones and charcoal. 



In the third barrow there was no cist or hole, but at a depth of 

 six inches from the apex was a heap of burnt human bones and 

 charcoal, and among them a perfect bone pin, pierced at the larger 

 end. There was no trace of pottery in these barrows, but there 

 were a few animal bones reduced to small fragments, and in the 

 last, portions of the skull and the curved bony cores of the horns 

 of what was probably a small Bos longifrons. 



