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Four well-preserved Bronze Age round barrows aligned on top of the down. One shows clear evidence of the pillaging commonly perpetrated by antiquarians in the 19th century,who dug directly into the top of the mound to gain access to burial goods. "Three of the four barrows are of the Wessex bell-type barrow; these are eight to ten feet high. The fourth is an ordinary bowl shaped mound, also ten feet high. They were excavated by W. Greenwell near the end of the 19th century. Two of the bell barrows contained cremations and the third a skeleton. Other finds included amber, beads, flint arrowheads, fragments of greenstone axe and a grooved dagger. The bowl barrow had a cremation in a burial cist covered with four sarsen stones. The contents of these barrows are now in the British Museum. The famous Aldbourne barrow is at the foot of this hill in the field by the B4192 [see my picture 2783306]." http://www.wiltshire-web.co.uk/history/barrows.htm