BUTCOMBE, a parish in the hundred of HARTCLIFFE-with-BEDMINSTER,
county of SOMERSET, 8
miles (N.E.) from Axbridge, containing 213 inhabitants.
The" living is a discharged rectory, in'the archdeaconry
of-Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £6. 17. 10., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £400 royal bounty, and in the pa<-
tronage of the Rev. R. P. Hassell. The church, dedicated
to St. Michael, is a very old structure. A' singular
barrow, was opened here in 1-788,  that- exhibited an
entire specimen of a well-arranged family vault: the
interior- consisted of an avenue formed by triplets of
stones, with small cells nine feet long and two and
quarter broad, in which were found skulls and other
fragments of human bones.