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 A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE of burials by cremation, and the fourth the skeleton of an Anglo-Saxon man. 1 There is also a barrow on Batlynge Mead, the traditional site of a battle between the Saxons and Danes. ENBORNE. There are two barrows in Enborne parish on the site of the first Battle of Newbury. The largest, called ' Bumper's Hill,' is on the boundary of Enborne and Newbury. 1 HAMPSTEAD MARSHALL. There are three large circular barrows in Hampstead Park. 8 HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. There is a small barrow near Wailey Hill. It was opened about the year 1835 but nothing was found. There were two here formerly, but one has totally disappeared. There is a large, very high barrow in Park Wood, with a deep trench round it. 4 EAST HENDRED. In this parish is situated Cuckhamsley Barrow or Scutchamfly Knob, about which so much has been written. Excava- tions were made here some years ago which resulted in finding various articles, including an iron buckle, scattered through the mound, but no signs of an interment. In the centre was found a large oak stake, which had been charred. 5 There is another barrow on East Hendred Down. EAST ILSLEY. There are two small barrows on East Ilsley Down. WEST ILSLEY. On an eminence south of Hodcott Hall there were several large barrows, gradually diminishing beneath the plough.' INKPEN. On the top of the Downs, at the south-west corner of the parish, are four round barrows ; one is very conspicuous, while three others, much smaller, lie close together. LAMBOURN. The most famous group of barrows is that known as Seven barrows, near the farm of that name upon the Lambourn Downs. There are in reality about twenty, and one of these is double, i.e. two conical barrows intersecting, while another, which appears oval, was probably the same originally. 7 There is a small barrow on Park Down Farm, and two others on Stancombe Down, adjoining the parish of Letcombe Bassett. The latter were opened by Canon Greenwell. In one no interment was found, while in the other were the calcined bones of a man, covered by a per- forated ' incense cup,' by which were lying a hammer of stone and another made of deer horn. There is another barrow on Row Down, two more on Farncombe Down, and two on Eastbury Down. Proc. Sac. Antiq. xii. 339. Times, Oct. 1874. Berks Quart. Journ. ii. 135. Berks, Bucks and Oxon. Arch. Journ. vii. 95. " Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, iv. 176. 3 Ibid. iii. 105. 4 Ibid. i. 208. Hist. Newbury and Env. 220. 6 Cough's Camden, i. 225. Hewitt, Hundred of Comfton, 99, 100. Coote, Romans in Britain, loo. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, i. 167-9. 6 Hewitt, Hundred of Compton, 36. 7 See article on Anglo-Saxon Remains. 280