boss with a shield similar to the one in the south aisle, having the arms of the Abbey of Shaston impaling Elizabeth Shelford [?]. Behind is a crozier and the initials E s at the sides. The other half of the ceiling is plaster, that part having been damaged by the fall of the spire. I am told, however, some of the old beams remain under it.

The North Transept. Under the north window is a list of benefactors painted on wood. At the east side, on either side of the window, are canopied niches for figures, the design of these niches being different. That on the north side is a little earlier than the other, I think. The niches on the south side have a piscina underneath. These niches date from about 1490-1535. The lower part of the centre light of the window-as has been mentioned in the description of the exterior—is solid, and has a trefoil head with ogee canopy above the small lights. Below is a pedestal which stands on the cill of the window. This window has lately had stained glass inserted, in memory of the Bracher family, of Place Farm. Underneath is a chase in which the altar stood. This transept was made the Lady Chapel which was founded in 1299,

"and endowed with the title of various tenements and fields now called 'Chantry,' 'Doves', and 'Mockney'; the chapel was enclosed by a beautiful screen of open woodwork of the date of the niches, whose destruction many can remember.” 3

The ceiling is flat plaster.

In the north-east pier of the nave there is a square hole cut through; it is not very old. Apparently it was cut to enable the pulpit to be seen from part of the aisle, or to improve the hearing of the prayers.

The Church Plate is fully described in Nightingale's Church Plate of Wilts, p. 63.

3 Rev. J. F. Chanter, Parish Magazine, 1886.

NOTES ON BARROWS IN SOUTH WILTS.

By LT.-COL. W. HAWLEY, F.S.A.

Nor many years ago Bulford was a place little known except in its vicinity, but since the War Office has acquired much land in the neighbourhood for military purposes, and a permanent camp has been established there, the name has become well known.

Shortly before the Government occupation I opened a few of the barrows situated westward of the camp, and also others, some of which occur still further westward, on Brigmerston and Syrencot Downs; leave to do so having been very kindly granted me by the then owners of the properties-J. Ledger Hill, F. S. Rendall, and George Knowles, Esquires. The operations were spread over intervals during a period of about three years, aud were my first attempts at investigating Prehistoric remains; so, before beginning to recount them, I should like to make my apologies to archæologists for the perfunctory way they were carried out. For although it gave me infinite pleasure at the time, now that I have acquired a little more knowledge of these matters, it is not without some feeling of regret that I think these barrows were not so thoroughly explored as they should have been, and treated according to the methods of General Pitt-Rivers: yet, it is a very large undertaking to move a barrow of large dimensions, to take it away from its site, and after noting and examining everything, to return the earth to its original place, and the barrow to its former appearance.

There is, however, this to be said, that the structure of the barrows is left uninterfered with except in the portion excavated, and the above remarks refer chiefly to the large Bulford Barrows, and not to the others which I shall mention afterwards, the latter having been in great part already destroyed; some by rabbits, others ploughed down and levelled (some almost out of recognition), a custom in years gone by whenever land was taken up for cultivation: so, in these instances, rather than doing harm, I trust I may have been useful in recording these, as they might be lost to sight entirely as time progresses.

BARROW 1.1 BULFORD.

The first barrow to receive attention was one which is a quarter of a mile east of the Sheep bridge over the Nine Mile Water, and is marked 1 on the Sketch Map which accompanies this paper. A trench 5 feet wide was cut on the south side and the heading carried to the centre, following the level of the virgin chalk all the way. The chalk dipped suddenly after a few feet had been cut from the outside, but afterwards continued level to the centre, where the height was 13 feet. The radius of the barrow seemed to be approximately 70 feet. Nothing of any sort was met with until within 6 or 7 feet of the centre, when a skeleton of an infant was met with; after which other infantile remains were constantly come upon as the centre was approached, until the number amounted to seven, ranging in age from a newly-born infant to a child of 5 or 6, judging by the condition of the teeth and of the embryo ones. These remains occurred amongst a mass of brown earth about 5 or 6 feet thick which had been placed over the centre of the barrow site; they occurred at all heights up to 5 feet,and were in all positions as if they had been carelessly thrown into the heap whilst it was being made. At the lower part of this mound of brown soil the skeletons of three men were come upon, laid upon a mass of large flints, which were in the same plane as the level of the virgin chalk. They had been carefully arranged equidistantly from each other, heads to the centre, laid on their left sides, the legs and bodies tightly doubled up. When examining these I was surprised to find that the forearms of all the three were missing i.e., the ulna, radius, and all the hand bones. They were very finely developed men, and I greatly regret not having taken measurements, but am able to state that the skulls were brachycephalic. The flints upon which these were resting proved to be the upper part of a large mass filling a cist which existed below, the dimensions of which proved afterwards to be 8 feet long, 4 feet 5 inches wide, and nearly 7 feet deep, its direction being towards S.SE. Its sides and corners were sharply cut in the virgin chalk, the sides of 1 Barrows 1—4 are in Bulford Parish. Ordnance 6in. Survey, Sheet XLVIII.