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 A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE EAST LOCKINGE. There are two barrows at the south end of East Lockinge parish, close to the Ridge-way. MARCHAM. There is a barrow at Garford in. this parish, on ' Barrow Hill ' between the two branches of the Ock. 1 MOULSFORD. There is a circular barrow on Moulsford Down to the east of Lingley Knob. It is doubtful whether this is ' the fine circular barrow surrounded by a fosse' mentioned by Hewitt as being at the corner of Unhill Wood, for there is no trench round it at the present time.* NEWBURY. There are three barrows on Wash Common, south of Newbury, on the site of the first Battle of Newbury. EAST SHEFFORD. There was formerly a mound or barrow in the garden of the old Rectory, which was removed some years ago, when nothing of interest was found. It is said that Hug's ditch terminated here. WEST SHEFFORD. Near Coldridge Wood, to the south of the village, is a round barrow 95 feet in diameter. It was opened in the early part of the nineteenth century by a farmer, who found ashes, bones and some old sherds. Some years later it was carefully explored. Fragments of pottery and the bones of animals were found scattered through the mound. The base of a cinerary urn with some ashes attached to it was also discovered, beside some fragments of human bones, an ' incense cup,' a bone needle, and a number of flint implements. 3 SPARSHOLT. ; There is a barrow on the top of the hill to the east of Uffington Castle, which was opened in 1852, when a number of skeletons were found, with marks of verdigris between their teeth. There are three more on Sparsholt Down, and one of these, it seems, was opened by Canon Greenwell, though he describes it as being in Childrey parish. The barrow had evidently been opened before, as fragments of a cinerary urn and the burnt bones it had contained were found scattered through the mound. A single round bead of lignite, one of a necklace, was also found. There are two more barrows on Pit Down.* SPEEN. ;A round barrow formerly stood by the river Kennet on Speen Moor, surrounded by several concentric ridges. This was removed in the eighteenth century, when the workmen discovered an urn, which was broken by the peat spade." On the hill above Bagnor, by the side of an ancient trackway, is what appears to be the remains of a tumulus, known as the ' Mount.' STRATFIELD MORTIMER. To the north of the road leading to Ufton, and not far from the entrenchment already described, are two 1 Cooper-King, Hist. Berks, 32. 3 Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, i. 130-1. 4 Ibid. 176, 182. Arch. lii. 64, 65. 8 Phil. Trans. 1. pt. i. 109-115. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 123, 138. 282
 * Hewitt, Hundr. of Compton, 115.