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Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38 Pages 153-378 is in Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 1913 V38.
Upton Lovell
Barrows.
On Upton Lovell Down S. of the Amesbury Rd. ¾ to 1 mile S. of Knook Castle, 4. 7. I. Station III. shows 6 barrows opened by Hoare, only 2 of which, Nos. (6) and (4) or (5), are shown on 0.S. 52 SE. The numbers in brackets thus (6) are Hoare’s.
1. (6) "Great Barrow [Map]," 1 mile S.W. of Knook Castle, 3 mile S. of Amesbury Rd., bell-shaped with ditch. Shallow cist in centre with burnt bones, and necklace of beads, 16 of cylindrical notched glass, 5 of lignite, 27 of amber. Stags’ horns and quantities of ashes in body of mound. O.M. 52 SE.; A.W. 1.76 ; Stourhead Cat. 14 b, d. figs.
[2e.] "Golden Barrow [Map]" in valley on N. bank of Wily River, about mile S.E. of Upton Lovell Manor Farm. Opened 1803 and 1807. In centre a heap of burnt bones in oblong cist about 1ft. 6in. deep without relics. Nearer surface of barrow a second pile of burnt bones, and 1ft. away a quantity of ashes with small fragments of burnt bone. 2ft. from the pile of burnt bones were 13 small drum-shaped beads or buttons of thin gold ; a plate of thin gold which had probably covered a wooden foundation covered with engraved ornament, 6in. X 3in.; a large conical lignite button covered with thin gold ; two small conical orna- ments of thin gold ; a necklace composed of several flat perfor- ated plates and more than 1,000 beds of amber ; a long tanged bronze awl ; a "grape cup" ; a small thin bronze knife dagger ; a small plain urn-shaped vessel inside a larger urn. 4.W. 1 98; Pls. X., XI.,Station IV. ; Stourkead Cat. 50—62 figs. ; Evans’ Bronze 189 figs. 223, 224 ; Evans’ Stone 414; Arch. xliii. 466 ; not in 0.3. 58 NE.