Colt Hoare 1812. The two first [No. 128 [Map] and No. 129 [Map]] had experienced a prior opening, but the cist of the latter, containing an interment of burned bones with a lance-head of brass, had escaped unnoticed. The third also had been partially opened; but some of the interments remained perfect and were attended with some novel and singular circumstances. At the depth of about a foot and a half from the surface, we discovered a skeleton with a drinking cup, and lower down a deposit of burned bones. On the east side of the barrow lay the skeletons of two infants, one with its head towards the east, the other towards the west, each placed over the head of a cow, which from fragments of the horns appeared to have been of a small size. We afterwards found a cist nearly four feet deep in the chalk, which contained, as we conceived, the primary interment, viz, the skeleton of a man; but these relicks had been disturbed, and some brazen articles, with which the bones were tinged had been removed.

Colt Hoare 1812. The two first [No. 128 [Map] and No. 129 [Map]] had experienced a prior opening, but the cist of the latter, containing an interment of burned bones with a lance-head of brass, had escaped unnoticed. The third also had been partially opened; but some of the interments remained perfect and were attended with some novel and singular circumstances. At the depth of about a foot and a half from the surface, we discovered a skeleton with a drinking cup, and lower down a deposit of burned bones. On the east side of the barrow lay the skeletons of two infants, one with its head towards the east, the other towards the west, each placed over the head of a cow, which from fragments of the horns appeared to have been of a small size. We afterwards found a cist nearly four feet deep in the chalk, which contained, as we conceived, the primary interment, viz, the skeleton of a man; but these relicks had been disturbed, and some brazen articles, with which the bones were tinged had been removed.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 131 [Map] had been opened by the neighbouring farmers. In this barrow we found, in a deep cist, an unusually large quantity of burned bones, and with them two drinking cups, two incense cups, and two brass pins. One of the incense cups was preserved entire, and is engraved of the original size in TUMULUS Plate XXIV. The quantity of bones, and the duplicate articles would induce me to suppose that this mound was raised over the relicks of two persons.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 133 [Map] is a very high barrow: but the plough has made considerable encroachments round its base. It contained within a deep cist, a pile of burned bones, and a very beautiful and perfect grape cup, which is engraved in the same plate with the aforementioned cup.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 134 [Map], No. 135 [Map], No. 136 [Map], No. 137 [Map], bear marks of prior openings.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 134 [Map], No. 135 [Map], No. 136 [Map], No. 137 [Map], bear marks of prior openings.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 134 [Map], No. 135 [Map], No. 136 [Map], No. 137 [Map], bear marks of prior openings.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 134 [Map], No. 135 [Map], No. 136 [Map], No. 137 [Map], bear marks of prior openings.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 138 [Map] is a Druid barrow, which had been opened before.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 139 [Map], a mean barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth, produced within a shallow cist a pile of burned bones, and with them two fine daggers of brass, a long pin of the same metal in the form of a crutch, a whetstone, and a small pipe of bone. This last article is now broken, but it was originally about seven or eight inches long, and more than a quarter of an inch in diameter at the small, and half an inch at the large end; it is thin, and neatly polished, and has a perforation near the centre. The brass pin and whetstone are engraved in Tumuli Plate XXIV.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 140 [Map], No. 141 [Map], No. 142 [Map], No. 143 [Map], have been all explored by the neighbouring farmers, and their history is of course unknown.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 140 [Map], No. 141 [Map], No. 142 [Map], No. 143 [Map], have been all explored by the neighbouring farmers, and their history is of course unknown.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 140 [Map], No. 141 [Map], No. 142 [Map], No. 143 [Map], have been all explored by the neighbouring farmers, and their history is of course unknown.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 140 [Map], No. 141 [Map], No. 142 [Map], No. 143 [Map], have been all explored by the neighbouring farmers, and their history is of course unknown.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 144 [Map], a wide bowl-shaped barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth, contained the remains of a skeleton, much decayed, and deposited within an oblong cist, with its head towards the north, and accompanied by a small lance-head of brass.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 145 [Map] is also a bowl-shaped barrow, which appeared to have undergone a prior investigation, but in examining the cist, we discovered a piece of ivory resembling the handle of a cup, and a large black pebble shaped like a kidney.

Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table IX. Southern Prospect from Stonehenge. A. the barrow Ld Pembroke opened [Map]. B.B. [Map] those I opened. C. Bushbarrow [Map] D. a cavity in the vallum.

Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table IX. Southern Prospect from Stonehenge. A. the barrow Ld Pembroke opened [Map]. B.B. [Map] those I opened. C. Bushbarrow [Map] D. a cavity in the vallum.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 146 [Map] appears to have been the barrow opened by Dr. Stukeley, and marked B in TAB. IX. of his work.

Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table IX. Southern Prospect from Stonehenge. A. the barrow Ld Pembroke opened [Map]. B.B. [Map] those I opened. C. Bushbarrow [Map] D. a cavity in the vallum.

Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table IX. Southern Prospect from Stonehenge. A. the barrow Ld Pembroke opened [Map]. B.B. [Map] those I opened. C. Bushbarrow [Map] D. a cavity in the vallum.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 147 [Map]. One of these two barrows, enclosed within the same ditch, was opened by Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, in the year 1722, and is marked A in TAB. IX. of Stukeley; and described at page 44 of his Stonehenge. Although the noble Peer made an entire segment in it from centre to circumference, his researches proved unsuccessful as to the primary interment, but he found the deposit of a skeleton three feet under the surface, with its head placed in a northerly direction towards Stonehenge. Our experience having given us repeated proofs that the system of opening barrows was but imperfectly understood in former days, we determined to try our luck, and on reaching the floor soon found, owing to a stratum of chalk, a clue to the cist, which contained an interment of burned bones, and with it two articles of ivory in high preservation. The one resembles in shape a small lance-head, the other is like the handle of a cup. Each is engraved in Tumuli Plate XXIV. The latter is the third article of the sort we have discovered, yet can we form no idea to what use it was appropriated. In the smaller barrow Dr. Stukeley had cleared a part of the floor, but not finding any interment, he left two half-pence covered with stones; one of the reign of King WILLIAM the Third, the other of King GEORGE the First, 1718. This last is in high preservation, though the period of 86 years has elapsed since it was deposited. On meeting with these tokens, our labourers left off work, thinking that the learned Doctor bad been beforehand with us, but from the circumstance of not meeting with any fragments of bones, Mr. Cunnington desired them to continue their researches; when, on exploring the floor of the barrow, they soon perceived the well known line of chalk, which led them to a cist at the east end of the barrow, and to an interment of burned bones, with which were deposited four amber beads, two of jet with convoluted stripes, and a little broken cup.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 148 [Map] was unproductive; and No. 149 [Map], a Druid barrow, had experienced a prior opening.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 148 [Map] was unproductive; and No. 149 [Map], a Druid barrow, had experienced a prior opening.

Colt Hoare 1812. In No. 150 [Map] we missed the interment.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 151 [Map] is a small long barrow; and we found that No. 152 [Map], No. 153 [Map], and No. 154 [Map], had been opened before.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Wilsford (S. Wilts). 13. [Normanton Barrow 151 G13 [Map]] On Normanton Down, S. of Stonehenge. No. 151 of Hoare's Normanton Group Length 65ft.; S.W. and N.E. There is no record of this barrow having been opened, but it rather looks as if it might have been. It is a small, but judging by external appearances a true "Long" barrow; the ditch on the S. side is quite distinct and does not appear to be continued round the ends of the mound; on the other side it is not so clear, but as it is within a few feet of a large disc-shaped barrow, the making of the latter may have obscured the ditch of the former. O.M. 54 SW.; A. W. I. 201.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 151 [Map] is a small long barrow; and we found that No. 152 [Map], No. 153 [Map], and No. 154 [Map], had been opened before.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 151 [Map] is a small long barrow; and we found that No. 152 [Map], No. 153 [Map], and No. 154 [Map], had been opened before.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 151 [Map] is a small long barrow; and we found that No. 152 [Map], No. 153 [Map], and No. 154 [Map], had been opened before.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 156 [Map] is a fine bell-shaped barrow, 102 feet in base diameter, and 10 feet in elevation above the plain. It contained within a very shallow cist, the remains of a skeleton, whose head was placed towards the west, and a deposit of the most various elegant little trinkets; the most remarkable of which are two gold beads, engraved of their original size in Tumuli Plate XXV. No. 7, 8. The first is of an oblong form, large, and ornamented with circular rings; the other is much less, and of a globular; they appear to have been formed by first making a wooden bead, and then covering it with two thin plates of gold, which were overlapped in the centre, and made fast by indentation; for in none of these golden articles have we ever distinguished any marks of solder, or any other mode of fastening than by indentation. The large bead is perforated lengthways, the smaller one in two places on one side. Besides these beads of gold. there were several trinkets of jet, amber, &c. viz. a flat: piece of amber, No, 9; two other pieces, the one plain, the other marked with transverselines, both perforated; also two round beads of amber; a jet bead of a globular form, but much compressed, No. 10; another with convoluted stripes, No. 1; an article of jet, singular in its shape, No. 12; and some curious beads of stone, one of which, No. 13, seems to be the joint of a petrified echinus [sea urchin]. Besides the above articles, the most remarkable of which are engraved in Tumuli Plate XXV. we found another beautiful little grape cup, similar to those before described in Tumuli PlateS XI. and XXIV. in high preservation. There was also a drinking cup placed at the feet of the skeleton, which was unfortunately broken, but afterwards repaired.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 157 [Map] had a prior opening.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 159 [Map] and No. 160 [Map] are both Druid barrows: the former had been opened by Lord Pembroke, or Dr. Stukeley: the latter was investigated by us in the year 1804, and produced within a small circular cist, an internment of burned bones, and with it a great variety of amber, jet and glass beads.

Wessex from the Air Plate 33a. The disc-barrow nearest to Bush Barrow [Normanton Barrow 159 G4 [Map]] was opened by Stukeley, probably about 1720. It is ‘Normanton, No. 159’ of Colt Hoare’s numbering, and ‘Wilsford, No. 4’ of Mr. Goddard’s. Stukeley says (Stonehenge, 1740, pp. 45 and 46):

‘We made a cross-section ten foot each way, three foot broad over its center, upon the cardinal points. At length we found a squarish hole cut into the solid chalk, in the center of the tumulus. It was three foot and a half, i.e. two cubits long, and near two foot broad, i.e. one cubit: pointing to Stonehenge directly. It was a cubit and a half deep from the surface.... In this little grave we found all the burnt bones of a man, but no signs of an urn. The bank of the circular ditch is on the outside, and is 12 cubits [21 ft] broad. The ditch is 6 cubits [10½ ft.] broad (the Druid’s staff), the area is 70 cubits [122½ ft.] in diameter. The whole 100 [cubits = 175 ft.].’

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 159 [Map] and No. 160 [Map] are both Druid barrows: the former had been opened by Lord Pembroke, or Dr. Stukeley: the latter was investigated by us in the year 1804, and produced within a small circular cist, an internment of burned bones, and with it a great variety of amber, jet and glass beads.

Wessex from the Air Plate 33a. The other disc-barrow [Normanton Barrow 160 G3 [Map]] was opened in 1804 by Sir Richard Colt Hoare and his collaborator, Mr. William Cunnington. It ‘produced within a small circular cist, an interment of burned bones, and with it, a great variety of amber, jet and glass beads’ (Ancient Wiltshire, i, 1812, 205). These beads consist of two long notched beads of blue glass, five-eighths of an inch long, with six segments (Stourhead Catalogue, 1896, No. 154); eleven round amber beads (ibid,, No. 154 a) and six fusiform lignite beads (ibid., No. 154 b).

O.G.S.C. (age 41)

Colt Hoare 1812. In No. 161 [Map], which is a low barrow, elevated only two feet above the plain, we found a skeleton, with its head laid towards the south-east, and with it a drinking cup. Eighteen inches lower down was another, lying on its left side, with its head towards the east; and beneath it, we discovered a cist of the depth nearly of six feet, cut in the chalky rock, and containing the primary interment, of a young man, with his head lying towards the north, and a drinking cup close to his right hand; it had been neatly ornamented, but was broken by the pressure of the incumbent earth.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 162 [Map], a fine Druid barrow, had been opened before;

Colt Hoare 1812. and No. 163 [Map], contained an interment of burned bones, deposited in a shallow oval cist, with the fragments of a small cup, and a bone pin.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 164 [Map] may be considered as the most beautiful bell-shaped barrow in the plains of Stonehenge. Its base diameter is 145 feet, and its elevation 14½ feet. It contained within a very shallow cist, the skeleton of a man with his head deposited towards the north-east upon a plank of elm wood: on the left side of the head was a fine dagger of brass, and a small lance-head of the same metal, the former of which had been guarded by a wooden case: at the feet of the skeleton was a richly ornamented drinking cup, which was unfortunately crushed to pieces. We also found some stag's horns at the head and feet of the skeleton. In making the section in this barrow, our labourers perceived three apertures in the soil at some considerable distance apart, which at first they considered as rabbit holes, but on working further, they found that they extended from the top of the barrow to the interment of a skeleton at the bottom: and in these apertures they frequently discovered large quantities of petrified oak wood. It is difficult account for this singular circumstance, unless we suppose that, on the interment: of this Briton, three pieces of oak timber had been placed either upon or near the body, which diverged in an angular direction towards the summit, and as in process of rime the wood became nearly decomposed, the calcareous water, by draining through the apertures, might fossilize the decayed wood, and produce the above petrifaction.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 165 [Map] is a small oblong barrow, which was opened by a section at the broad end, where the interments in similar tumuli are usually found: but in this instance we were disappointed in not finding the sepulchral deposit.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 166 [Map] contained the remains of a skeleton, accompanied by a drinking cup, and stags' horns.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 167 [Map] is a pond barrow.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 168 [Map] produced an interment of burned bones;

Colt Hoare 1812. and No. 169 [Map] did not prove sepulchral.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 170 [Map] is a long barrow, not opened;

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Wilsford. 34. [Normanton Barrow 170 G34 [Map]] On Wilsford Down, S.W. of Stonehenge. No. 170 of Hoare's Normanton group. Length 117ft.; N.E. and S.W. Opened by Thurnam in 1865 — 6, who found at least five skeletons, all apparently secondary burials; but as no primary burial was found, he seems, in the end, to have been a little doubtful as to whether the five burials were all secondary or not. Unfortunately there seems to be no consecutive or published account of the discoveries in this barrow, and the following notes are taken from the MS. Catalogue. At the extreme W. end of the barrow, at a depth of about 2ft., was found the skeleton of a boy, lying on its back, with head to the S.S.W.; "with legs doubled up, knees not drawn up." A second skeleton was found, near the summit of the barrow, also near the W. end, but to the E. of the last; it was in a contracted position and without relics. A third skeleton was found to the E. of the other two; it was that of a girl, and was "doubled up with head to the N.N. W. and the hand applied to the head." A. fourth skeleton was also near the summit of the barrow, and E. of the other three; it was contracted "with a fine British drinking cup near the hips." The fifth skeleton was "almost exactly at the centre of the barrow (but E. of the other four?), at a depth of 1½ft.; it was doubled up, with head to the east, and without relics.

Colt Hoare 1812. and No. 171 [Map] denotes a group of various tumuli of the largest of which produced a rude urn, some jet beads, and different sizes; a brass pin. In another, which had been opened before, we found the fragments of a large urn, and a piece of granite similar to one found in a barrow at Upton Lovel. Nearly all the smaller barrows in this group contained simple interments of burned bones.

Colt Hoare 1812. In No. 172 [Map] we at first discovered a circular cist, containinø a vast quantity of black ashes, with a fragments of burned bones; but the interment was placed on the Moor, by the side of the cist. the bones was found a large ring, and several beads of a dark olive brown colour. made from some bitutninized substance.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 173 [Map] is a long barrow. In making, as usual, our section at the broad end, where experience has taught us the sepulchral deposit was generally made, we discovered, at the depth of 18 inches from the surface, a skeleton, and on reaching the floor of the barrow, four other skeletons strangely huddled together; yet from the regular appearance of the stratum of chalk over them, we had no reason to think that the barrow had been opened before. The bones were in a high state of preservation, and one of the persons here interred seemed to have had no forehead, the sockets of his eyes appearing to have been on the top of his head, and the final termination of the vertebræ turned up so much, that we almost fancied we had found the remains of one of Lord Montboddo's animals.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 379-414. Wilsford. 30.¹ [Normanton Barrow 173 G30 [Map]] On Normanton Down, S.W. of Stonehenge. No. 173 of Hoare's Normanton group. Length 126ft.; E. and W. Opened by Hoare and Cunnington, who made a section in the broad end and found a secondary burial of a skeleton, and "on reaching the floor of the barrow, four other skeletons strangely huddled together." This barrow lies on unploughed down, and is in good condition with very fairly well-defined ditches. O.M. 60 NVV.; A. W. I. 206; Arch. xlii. 180.

Note 1. This is the barrow referred to by Thurnam as "Normanton No. 173."

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 174 [Map] had been opened before.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 175 [Map] contained a simple deposit of burned bones; and in the small tumuli attached to it, and which had been investigated, we found fragments of another interment.

Colt Hoare 1812. In No. 176 [Map], a fine bell-shaped barrow, we found a skeleton lying on the floor with its head towards the north but the excessive severity of the weather prevented Mr. Cunnington from investigating this barrow as minutely as he could have wished.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 178 [Map] contained a simple interment of burned bones;

Colt Hoare 1812. and No. 179 [Map], No. 180 [Map], had been opened by the neighbouring farmers.

Colt Hoare 1812. and No. 179 [Map], No. 180 [Map], had been opened by the neighbouring farmers.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 181 [Map] is a group consisting of several mean barrows, which we did not think worthy of investigation, as several of them bore the marks of prior opening.

Colt Hoare 1812. No. 182 [Map] produced an interment of burned bones, deposited within a wooden box on the floor, and with them the head of a brass dagger, which had been secured by a sheath of wood lined with linen cloth, a small lance-head, a pair of ivory nippers, and an ivory pin.

Colt Hoare 1812. In No. 183 [Map] we found an interment of burned bones, and some stag's horns.