We observed before, concerning the temple of _Rowldrich_, there was a like anniversary meeting at that place, which doubtless has been continued thro’ all ages, and all succession of inhabitants, from the death of the arch-druid there buried. If we read the fifth _Æneid_ of _Virgil_, we shall there find the major part of it to be a description of the very matters we are writing of. The great poet who affectedly describes all ancient customs, speaks of his hero making a _tumulus_ for his father _Anchises_, and a temple and sacred grove; providing priests and officers necessary for that purpose. Celebrating the anniversary remembrance of his deceased parent, with great magnificence, with sacrifices, feasting, games, sports and exercises, and distributing rewards to the victors. So _Virgil_ in _Georg._ 3. _Et viridi in campo templum de marmore ponam_, &c. So _Herodotus_ describing the manner of sepulture among the _Thracians_ and _Macedonians_. The whole matter is so notorious, that I leave the reader to make the particular application and parallel. Here at _Silbury_, the country being all a fine and exquisite down, I cannot point out the place where the games were kept: perhaps on the meadow between _Abury_ and the hill. I took notice that _apium_ grows plentifully about the spring-head of the _Kennet_. _Pliny_ writes _defunctorum epulis dicatum apium_. To this day the country people have a particular regard for the herbs growing there, and a high opinion of their virtue. The king-barrows which are round, both here and elsewhere vary in their turn and shape, as well as magnitude, as we see in a group together; whereof still very many are left, many destroy’d by the plough. Some of the royal barrows are extremely old, being broad and flat, as if sunk into the ground with age. There is one near _Longstone_ cove set round with stones. I have depicted two groups of them, one by the serpent’s head, on _Overton-hill_; another by the serpent’s tail, in the way between _Bekamton_ and _Oldbury_ camp: some flat, some campani-form, some ditch’d about, some not. One near the temple on _Overton-hill_ was quite levell’d for ploughing _anno_ 1720; a man’s bones were found within a bed of great stones, forming a kind of arch. Several beads of amber long and round, as big as one’s thumb end, were taken from it, and several enamel’d _British_ beads of glass: I got some of them, white in colour, some were green. They commonly reported the bones to be larger than common. So _Virgil Georg._ 1. _Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris._ I bought a couple of _British_ beads, one large of a light blue and rib’d, the other less, of a dark blue, taken up in one of the two barrows on _Hakpen-hill_, east of _Kennet_ avenue. These two barrows are ditch’d about, and near one another. The single barrow next it toward the snake’s head temple, is large and beautifully turn’d, with a ditch about it, at a distance, which throws it into a campanule form.