[Illustration: TAB. XXIII. _A Prospect from_ Abury _Steeple_. _Stukeley d._] Mr. _Bray_ of _Monkton_ open’d a barrow, among many others, at _Yatesbury_. There was a great stone laid at top, just under the surface. When taken up, they found a body laid in a stone coffin, form’d by several stones. He says, in another they found a body, with a flat gold ring, which was sold for 30_s._ and a piece of brass, about the bulk of a pint mug, with spear-heads of iron. A man of _Ambresbury_, who had liv’d here, told me of a brass spear-head dug up in a barrow between _Monkton_ and _Abury_, by a body: and that under some stones in a barrow, south of _Silbury_, they found a bit of gold, (I suppose the covering of a button, or the like, such as that I dug up at _Stonehenge_,) and many sharp bits of iron. Mr. _Aubury_ speaks of a barrow opened in _Kennet_ parish, _anno_ 1643, two stones 11 feet long, laid side by side, and a corps between, with a sword and knife. Another like stone laid over all. There is a very delicate hill north of _Abury_, of a round form, with an easy ascent quite round; ’tis call’d _Windmill-hill_. The turf as soft as velvet. ’Tis encompass’d with a circular trench, exceeding old. Fifteen barrows of a most ancient shape thereon. Many barrows are on the top, of several shapes. I open’d a small one, very old, flat, and round, and found an entire urn turn’d up-side down, into a hole cut in the solid chalk. The bones very rotten. I have given a drawing of the urn, plate XXXVI. It was red without, black within, 14 inches high, 9 in diameter at the aperture, wrought a little both within and without, and at the bottom, which stood uppermost. South of _Abury_ town is a hill, between it and _Silbury_, call’d _Windmill-hill_; it lies between our two avenues, and intercepts the view from one to the other. This too is crown’d with barrows of different sorts and sizes. The _Via Badonica_ runs on the southern skirt of it, going from _Overton-hill_ to _Silbury_. I took notice there of a barrow of that kind I call _Druids_. This happening too near the track of the _Roman_ road, it goes over part of it. Part is fill’d up, and the lump in the middle, under which the urn lay, they have dug away: A further demonstration, that it is of a date posterior to our _celtic_ works here. This hill too is call’d _Weedon-hill_, perhaps from the _Roman_ way.