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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS LETCOMBE BASSETT. On Mere End Down, at the extreme south- east corner of Letcombe Bassett parish, are two low circular barrows, each surrounded by a trench, which have been opened by Canon Green well. The larger of the two, which measures 100 feet across, was found to contain burnt bones, which had been much disturbed by badgers, and a well-formed barbed arrow-head of flint. H. SEVEN BARROWS, LAMBOURN. The smaller barrow, which lies 50 feet to the east, had either been opened at some previous time, or the interment had been disturbed by the plough, as the bones were found very much disturbed. Some pieces of pottery were found among the materials of the mound. There is another barrow on Nutwood Down, only a few yards from two in Lambourn parish, about 93 feet in diameter and five feet high. 1 Arch. lii. 61-2. I 28l 36