Edge waves which appear to be topographically trapped by surf-zone bars are observed in data collected during the DELILAH experiment, at Duck, North Carolina, in October 1990. Edge waves are theoretically trapped on bars when the phase speed is between (ghbar)1/2 and (ghtrough)1/2, where the effective depth h is the actual depth modified by the longshore current <Howd et al., 1992>. Spectral analysis of the longshore component of orbital velocity data from two longshore instrument arrays, one in the trough and one seaward of the bar, showed continuous, distinct, diagonal lines of variance, extending into incident wave frequencies. These lines of variance have the same frequency-wavenumber coordinates as theoretical calculations of bar-trapped edge waves. When the instrument array is on the top of the bar, the bar-trapped waves with the simplest shape are dominant; however, when the array is farther from the bar, more complex bar-trapped waves dominate. In the latter case, the simplest bar-trapped edge waves may exist on top of the bar and may have decayed to an insignificant size at the instrument location. Isolated cases exist where the simplest bar-trapped waves are still dominant even in the trough. These instances correspond to days with a strongly bimodal incident wave spectrum, which is broadbanded in both frequency and incident direction. These field observations show that bar-trapped edge waves can be the dominant edge wave modes in the longshore component of velocity data collected near or on the bar over a wide range of frequencies, including incident frequencies; their potential contribution to nearshore hydrodynamics should be addressed in future studies of barred beaches. ¿ 1998 American Geophysical Union