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Winterbourne Stoke East Group

Round Barrow(s)

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Details of Barrow cemetery on Pastscape

Eleven Bronze Age bowl barrows of the Winterbourne Stoke East barrow cemetery surrounded by an oval Medieval or later earthwork enclosure. This barrow group is situated on the western end of Fore Down. All the barrows were partly excavated in the 19th century. All barrows survive as earthworks. These features were mapped at 1:10,000 scale as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project , and subsequently revised for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project.

SU 0818 4239 (SMR No.656) with a diameter of c.27m (Centred SU 082423) Tumuli (NR) (1)
The "Winterbourne Stoke (East)" group of bowl barrows all within a Md or later banked enclosure, area 7 acres. All listed by Grinsell and all the barrows were dug by Hoare. (2-3)
All eleven barrows visible within enclosure. (4)
A group of eleven bowl barrows (Nos 55a - 60c) enclosed by a later bank and ditch situated on the SW end of Fore Down.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500. (5)
The earthwork remains of eleven Bronze Age bowl barrows of the Winterbourne Stoke East barrow cemetery described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SU 0825 4233. The group is surrounded by an oval Medieval or later earthwork enclosure 155m x 225m.
These features were mapped at 1:10,000 scale as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project , and subsequently revised for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project.
The barrows were individually recorded as follows:
-SU 0818 4239, NMR No.115 (SMR No.656) with a diameter of c.27m
-SU 0825 4233, NMR No.112 (SMR No.657) with a diameter of 38m
-SU 0827 4240, NMR No.120 (SMR No.658) with a diameter of 16m
-SU 0823 4236, NMR No.110 (SMR No.659) with a diameter of 20m
-SU 0834 4232, NMR No.117 (SMR No.660) with a diameter of 18m
-SU 0824 4228, NMR No.118 (SMR No.661) with a diameter of 12m
-SU 0830 4234 , NMR No.116 (SMR No.662) with a diameter of 10m
-SU 0829 4234 , NMR No.113 (SMR No.663) with a diameter of 10m
-SU 0828 4235, NMR No.114 (SMR No.664) with a diameter of 16m
-SU 0831 4233 , NMR No.111 (SMR No.665) with a diameter of 14m
-SU 0817 4233 , NMR No.119 (SMR No.666) with a diameter of 14m
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1961
( 2) General reference - Victoria County History Wiltshire 1 1957 pp202-3
( 3) General reference - Colt Hoare R 1812 History of Ancient South Wiltshire 1812 pp115-6
( 4) Aerial photograph - AP (Crawford colln 6444 undtd)
( 5) Field Investigators Comments - F1 PAS 11-DEC-74
( 6) General reference - English Heritage Schedule Entry 30/08/1996
( 7) General reference - RAF 82/1225 0105 13-SEP-1955
( 8) General reference - NMR SU 0842/36 (15269/15) 19-APR-1995
Chance Posted by Chance
18th March 2012ce

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