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Although not classified as a settlement site, the area around Coate water has produced several flint working areas of prehistoric date.
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Details of site on Pastscape
Mesolithic flint-working site, with finds including flakes, microliths, blades and cores, was located during alterations carried out at Coate Water Park.
SU 17878207: A Mesolithic flint-working site was located during alterations carried out at Coate Water Park. Finds include flakes, microliths, blades and cores. (1-2)
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( 1) General reference Phillips B. Swindon Archaeological Society Excavations and Fieldwork 1973-5, 1
( 2) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine 70-71 Page(s)132
Details of site on Pastscape
Neolithic flint working site with finds including cores and scrapers was recorded during alterations at Coate Water. Neolithic pottery was also recorded.
SU 17608230: A Neolithic flint-working site was recorded during alterations carried out at Coate Water Park. Finds include scrapers and cores. Neolithic pottery was also recovered. (1-2)
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( 1) General reference Phillips B. Swindon Archaeological Society Excavation and Fieldwork 1973-5, 1
( 2) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine 70-71, 1975-76 Page(s)133
Also found at Coate water was a single "classic Bronze age spearhead" which is usually associated with an offering site.
Details of find on Pastscape
Bronze Age spearhead, 125mm long, was found at Coate Water. It is now in Swindon Museum.
SU 174828: A socketed looped bronze spearhead, 125mm long was found at Coate Water. Now in Swindon Museum. (1)
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(1) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine 70-1, 1975-76 Page(s)133
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Details of site on Pastscape
Mound of uncertain date and function recorded near Coate Reservoir. Finds including flint flakes and cores, prehistoric pottery and animal bone were also recorded nearby.
"15/9/1903 we (Passmore and Chandler?) opened the mound above the creek, Coate Reservoir, just above where the little S.E. stream runs into it, above the quarry, and found nothing. The ground here is full of flint flakes, cores, pottery of a very early period and bones" (1).
Passmore's note appears to be that referred to by Crawford who depicts an area 150m. N-S and 50m. E-W on his 6", centred at SU 1776 8217. An undated annotation "worked flints" accompanies his banding of the area (2). (1,2)
There is no mound in this area which is now grassland and part of a Public Park. Passmore's collection of flints has not yet been adequately identified and catalogued by the Ashmolean Museum, if these are among them. Circumstantial evidence suggests a working floor. (3)
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( 1) Externally held archive reference Passmore Mss. 63, Devizes Museum.
( 2) Annotated Record Map Pte. 6" (O.G.S. Crawford), Devizes Museum.
( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 22-AUG-68
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Details of site on Pastscape
A stone circle located immediately north east of Day House, Coate. Visible remains of the stone circle are represented by five recumbent sarsens arranged in an approximate semi-circle in the field to the east of Day House Lane. The the west of Day House Lane a further four stones have been previously recorded. These suggest that the overall diameter on the stone circle is approximately 92 metres. Scheduled.
(SU 18168240) Stone Circle (LB)
(SU 18168197) Stones (TI) (1)
An irregular circle of 9 recumbent stones was found by A.D. Passmore in front of Day House Farm, Coate. The stones were almost completely buried but when excavated were found to be between 5ft. and 9ft. long.
Alongside Day House Lane, to the N. of the circle, are five stones which may have formed part of an avenue.
To the SW of the farmhouse are three sarsens which may have been part of a stone circle. (2)
Of the nine stones in the circle described by Passmore only five can still be seen. Surveyed at 1:2,500. None of the line of stones to the north of the circle can be seen. The three sarsens S.W. of the farmhouse have been destroyed by explosives, though some of the pieces remain. A further line of stones extended from SU 16098382 to SU 16178395(a). These were mentioned by Passmore but have since been removed. Local tradition says that the stones marked the site of a trackway. (3)
Additional reference. (4)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) 6" Provisional 1960
( 2) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine 27, 1893-4 Page(s)171-4
( 3a) Annotated Record Map 25"
( 3b) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments
( 3) Field Investigators Comments 29/08/1968
( 4) Aubrey Burl 1976 The stone circles of the British Isles Page(s)348
( 5) Scheduled Monument Notification 08/12/1997
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Details of the Long stone on Pastscape
Possible prehistoric standing stone at Broome. It was described by Aubrey as being about 10ft high and part of an alignment. All were broken up during the late 19th or early 20th century.
(SU 16748251) Long Stone (TI) Standing Stone (LB) (site of) (TI). (1)
There formerly stood at Broome a standing stone called the Long Stone. According to Aubrey it was c.10ft high and from it there extended a line of smaller stones. (2)
Local tradition confirms the site of the large standing stone and implies that there were more as the field is known as 'Long Stones'. In 1903 Passmore recorded that "old Daniel Skinner" of Devizes Road remembered breaking up the standing stones in Longstones Field. Some, which were sarsen, were taken to Woodstock. This last remark of Passmore's suggests a pre-historic origin for the site since surface sarsen is not common locally though isolated boulders occur in the clay. In the 19th c. Swindon procured sarsen kerbstones from the Fifield and Overton Down areas of Salisbury Plain. (3)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1922.
( 2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1 The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)111
( 3a) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments
( 3b) Externally held archive reference - Passmore Mss. p.62, Devizes Museum.
( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 27-AUG-68
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Details of Long Barrow on Pastscape
A long barrow, with a linear earthwork extension, near the Broome Heath Neolithic enclosure. Neolithic material has been recovered from the vicinity, though skeletons excavated during the 19th century seem likely to be Saxon.
[TM 34409130; TM 34489130] Tumuli [LB] (1)
When a number of tumuli on Broome Heath were destroyed in 1858 one was excavated. At a depth of 3ft from the surface fragments of charcoal were seen in the soil, and about 6 ft from the top were the remains of a large skeleton, lying on a bed of gravel with head to the SW perhaps the remains of a pagan Saxon. No grave goods were found. A quantity of charcoal was found in one or two of the adjacent tumuli. (2)
Three rude Anglian urns said to have been found on Broome Heath were exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries,
London, in 1856. They have since disappeared, as has a cinerary urn (perhaps one of the foregoing) and a portion of another with a barbed flint arrowhead shown to the Suffolk Institute of Archaelogy in 1861. The mound on Broome Heath is 160 ft. long, 83 ft. wide and 6ft high. Recognition of the mound as a long barrow is due to Mr. R.R.Clarke. (3-4)
Long barrow and round barrow on Broome Heath, scheduled. (5)
The sand pits on Broome Heath have now been extended and these features have been destroyed. (6)
Only the two published features remain,the round barrow at 'F' - TM 3441 9131 and the long barrow at 'D' - TM 3448 9132.
Resurveyed at 1/2500. Quarrying to the north and south-east has accounted for the remainder of the sites noted on the 6". (7)
The long barrow and other earthworks in the area of the Broome Heath neolithic enclosure (TM 39 SW 7) were surveyed by RCHME as part of the project to record Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic. The round barrows, formerly part of this record, are now recorded separately as TM 39 SW 37.
The long barrow is 46.0m long, aligned approximately NE-SW, and is roughly oval in plan. Its width varies between 20.0m and 24.0m, diminishing in width from SW to NE, though it maintains a fairly constant height of 1.8m. Slight traces of a ditch survive on either side. A low bank extends to the SW on a very slightly different alignment, and appears to overlie the base of the barrow. This feature is 42.0m long, and maintains a width of 7.5m and a height of 0.6m. The association with the nearby enclosure may be significant, as although the broad span of the open side of the enclosure does not appear to relate directly to the barrow, the barrow does seem to be aligned precisely on the centre of the enclosed area, with the broader end facing towards it. The date and function of the bank overlying the long barrow is unclear. It does not seem comparable to known bank barrows. However, references are known to instances of rows of Anglo-Saxon inhumations buried in banks, and this may be a possibility given the Anglo-Saxon finds from the site. See archive report for a full discussion of these earthworks and finds. (8)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1957
( 2) Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society Norfolk archaeology : a journal of archaeology and local history Rev. G.J. Chester 5, 1859 Page(s)361-2
( 3) Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society Norfolk archaeology : a journal of archaeology and local history R.R. Clarke 27, 1941 Page(s)245
( 4) Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society Norfolk archaeology : a journal of archaeology and local history A.H.A. Hogg 27, 1941 Page(s)316
( 5) General reference Ancient Monuments in England & Wales, 1965, p75 (Min. Public Buildings & Works)
( 6) Large Scale / Small Scale Map Revisers Comment SS 6" ( M.H. Beck, Reviser, Feb. 1967)
( 7) Field Investigators Comments F1 BHS 22-MAR-67
( 8) General reference RCHME: Industry and Enclosure in the Neolithic: Broome Heath
( 9) by Audrey Meaney 1964 A gazetteer of early Anglo-Saxon burial sites Page(s)170
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Details of Barrow cemetery on Pastscape
A group of seven bowl barrows arranged as a linear group of five barrows orientated north-south with two outliers to the east. The barrows form the Seven Barrows bowl barrow cemetery.
Group centred SU 2186 4870 Seven Barrows (Tumuli)
[O.E.] [A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H and J]. (1)
A group of nine barrows is marked on the O.S. 6"; known as Seven Barrows. A further bowl barrow [K] of small dimensions was found by the author [K - SU 2189 4864]. (2)
Investigations subsequent to Grinsell's have showed at least three have almost been completely destroyed by military action, mainly tank practice tracks. five others have been badly damaged by military trenches. (3-5)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1925
( 2) General reference - Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club 14 1938-40 pp28, 29, 347
( 3) Field Investigators Comments - F1 WW 07-JAN-56
( 4) Field Investigators Comments - F2 FGA 25-JAN-67
( 5) Field Investigators Comments - F3 JGB 23-SEP-82
( 6) General reference - English Heritage Schedule Entry 03/01/1997
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Visited Early Aug 2011
A pair of undisturbed and so, undated bowl barrows. These barrows sit beside the old coach road that once linked Salisbury with Marlborough. This section of the coach road may well be prehistoric as it runs between numerous ancient sites. The barrows are now protected by a border of stakes as is the nearby milestone. The barrows are listed as a Scheduled Monument number WI10181 and are listed on the Wiltshire SMR as SU24NW600 and SU24NW601. The milestone is also listed as SU24NW527.
Although these barrows are hardly impressive and nothing really worth seeing, they are an important landmark when travelling on this area of the plain, especially when calculating your position with the O.S. map. The coach road is also a dedicated public byway and regardless of other military traffic running around the area, should always be open to dedicated antiquarians.
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Details of Barrow cemetery on Pastscape
A barrow cemetery comprising twelve barrows, nine of which are enclosed by The Coniger (SU 04 SE 83) a Medieval enclosure. The cemetery includes examples of bowl, disc, saucer and pond barrows which were excavated by Colt Hoare in 1809. The excavations located cremations in all but two of the barrows. The cremations were often placed within an inverted urn, two of which appeared to be wrapped in cloth, and were accompanied by grave goods which included a dagger and personal ornaments. Some of the finds are in Devizes Museum. One of the barrows, (SU 04 SE 78) also contained a Saxon inhumation with a knife. The barrows were surveyed by RCHME field staff in 1992 and 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..
SMR(SU 077420) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Barrows resurveyed at 1:2500 (2)
A group of 12 barrows, nine of which are enclosed by The Coniger (SU 04 SE 83) a Medieval enclosure. The cemetery includes examples of bowl, disc, saucer and pond barrows (3-4). Excavations by Colt Hoare in 1809 located cremations in all but two of the barrows. The cremations were often placed within an inverted urn, two of which appeared to be wrapped in cloth. Grave goods included a dagger, personal ornaments including amber and faience beads, shale rings and `incense cups' with twisted cord decoration (5). Some of the finds are in Devizes Museum (6). One of the barrows, (SU 04 SE 78) also contained an Early Medieval inhumation with a knife.
The barrows and rabbit warren were surveyed by RCHME field staff as part of a project focusing on the earthworks of South Wiltshire. Full details are contained in the archive report. (7)
Scheduled. (8)
The earthwork remains of the Bronze Age barrow cemetery contained within a polygonal Medieval embanked enclosure which were decscribed by the previous authorities were seen centred at SU 0770 4200 and mapped from aerial photographs. The majority of the barrows appear to be in reasonably good condition, some showing evidence of earlier excavations. The two barrows recorded by the SMR as 650 and 652 both lie outside the medieval enclosure. The barrows were recorded as follows:
-NMR SU04SE 71 (SMR 644) at SU 0765 4204, a bowl barrow with diameter of 22m.
-NMR SU04SE 72 (SMR 645) at SU 0765 4200, a bowl barrow with diameter of 24m.
-NMR SU04SE 73 (SMR 646) at SU 0766 4199, 2 confluent bowl barrows.
-NMR SU04SE 74 (SMR 647) at SU 0766 4197, a bowl barrow.
-NMR SU04SE 75 (SMR 648) at SU 0771 4201, a bowl barrow.
-NMR SU04SE 76 (SMR 649) at SU 0771 4197, a bowl barrow with diameter of 26m.
-NMR SU04SE 77 (SMR 650) at SU 0778 4195, a bowl barrow with diameter of 26m.
-NMR SU04SE 78 (SMR 651) at SU 0765 4208, a disc barrow, diameter c. 35m.
-NMR SU04SE 79 (SMR 652) at SU 0775 4197, a disc barrow, diameter c. 30m.
-NMR SU04SE 81 (SMR 654) at SU 0768 4199, a disc barrow, diameter c. 40m.
-NMR SU04SE 82 (SMR 655) at SU 0767 4195, a pond barrow, diameter 14m.
-(SMR 823) at SU 0769 4197, a mound with a diameter of 10m.
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. (9-11)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 25" 1901
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 PAS 12-Dec-1974
( 3) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine (E H Goddard) 38, 1913-14 Page(s)368-69
( 4) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1 The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)203, 206, 221, 224
( 5) by Sir Richard Colt Hoare; introduction by Jack Simmons and D D A Simpson 1975 The ancient history of Wiltshire Page(s)113-15
( 6) General reference - Neolithic and Bronze Age Antiquities Devizes Museum 1964 pp 59, 61, 65
( 7) Field Investigators Comments RCHME Field Investigation 20-MAR-1992 (CR Lewis)
( 8) General reference - English Heritage Schedule Entry 13/11/1996
( 9) General reference - RAF CPE/UK/1821 2284-5 04-NOV-1946
(10) General reference - RAF 106G/UK/915 321 11-NOV-1945
(11) General reference - NMR SU 0742/14-15 25-JUL-1980
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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
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Details of Long Barrow on Pastscape
The earthwork remains of a long barrow orientated east-west. A 36m length of mound survives as a visible earthwork which varies in height from 1.5m to c.1m. The remainder of the mound is visible as a slight rise in the field surface. This long barrow was 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 09174279) Long Barrow (NR) (1)
Grinsell's Winterbourne Stoke 53. Oriented E-W, length 104ft, width 64ft, height 3 1/2ft. Side ditches vague, and mound badly damaged. (2)
Hoare's No 3, which he opened with Cunnington. ? Primary cremation mixed with chalky marl, covered with a large pile of flints also mixed with chalky marl, found towards E end. Further E two cists containing large quantity of wood ashes. "Platform cremation"? (3)
A mutilated grass covered long barrow situated on a downland spur. Oriented E-W, it measures 36.0m long by 18.0m wide with the W end 1.7m high sloping (unusually) to 1.2m at the E end. All traces of the ditches noted by Grinsell have now been
destroyed. Re-surveyed at 1:2500. (4)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 53 by Goddard (5)
(SU 092428) Winterbourne Stoke 53 (Kinnes, SU 66) Longbarrow orientated east, with Kinnes Type A ditches. Contained crematorium deposit at east end with burnt chalk and calcined bones, covered by a flint cairn. Also two deep pits with charcoal fills. (6)
Surveyed by RCHM. (7)
The earthwork remains of the long barrow described by the previous authorities was seen centred at SU 0916 4279 and was mapped at 1:10,000 scale as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project. It was subsequently revised at 1:2500 scale for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. The barrow lies within a later Prehistoric or Roman field system recorded as SU04SE 16. (8)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1961
( 2) General reference - Victoria County History: Wiltshire 1 1957 p146 (L V Grinsell)
( 3) General reference - Hist of Anc S Wilts 1 1812 117 plan (R Colt Hoare)
( 4) Field Investigators Comments - F1 PAS 21-NOV-74
( 5) General reference - Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 38, 1913-14, p367, p407 (E.H Goddard)
( 6) General reference - British Museum Occasional Paper 52, 1992, 11, 29 (I. Kinnes)
( 7) General reference - RCHME: South Wilts Project
( 8) General reference -
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Details of Barrow on Pastscape
A large Bronze Age bell barrow survives as earthworks within the main alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 51m and comprises a mound, 3.1m high and of at least two phases, which sits on a roughly circular platform defined by a ring ditch that appears slightly cut by that around Winterbourne Stoke 4 to the south-west (Monument Number 870384). The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who gave it the title "king barrow" due to the rich finds (Barrow 16: 1812). His men found a primary inhumation within an elm tree-trunk coffin, accompanied by 2 bronze daggers, a bronze awl with a bone handle, and sherds of a 5-handled Breton style pottery vessel. The barrow was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 5 by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). The round barrow was mapped from aerial photographs at a scale of 1:10,000 as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project and this mapping revised at a scale of 1:2500 for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. The round barrow was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project.
(SU 10164170) King Barrow (AT) (1)
`D' - SU 10164170; Winterbourne Stoke 5, a bell barrow 164ft across. Colt Hoare's barrow 16, contained a primary inhumation within an elm trunk coffin with a five handled Breton type jar of red ware, two grooved daggers and a bronze awl with a bone handle. A secondary cremation is inferred from a piece of MBA collared urn found in a rabbit scrape in 1929, now in Manchester Museum. (2-3)
The five handled pot is of haematite ware common in IA `A' sites in Wessex. It seems likely therefore that the pot either indicates; an IA distrubance of the barrow unrecognised by Colt Hoare; it fell from a higher level during excavations or it was `planted' by a hoaxer during the excavations. (4)
A bell barrow 50m indiameter with a maximum height of 3.1m. The ditches of this and Winterbourne Stoke 4 are contiguous for a short distance. (5)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 5 by Goddard. (6)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (11-14)
The large Bronze Age bell barrow referred to above (1-14) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has an overall diameter of 51m and comprises a mound, 3.1m high and of at least two phases, which sits on a roughly circular platform defined by a ring ditch that appears slightly cut by that around Winterbourne Stoke 4 to the south-west (Monument Number 870384).
The survey revealed two possible phases of mound construction. The summit measures 7m long by 5m wide and the base of the upper mound, whihc is north-west of centre to the lower mound, measures 15m in diameter. The top of the lower mound is 18m and the base circa 28.5m in diameter. The mound is separated from the surrounding ditch by a berm of between 2m and 4m wide, making a platform circa 40m in diameter. The ditch measures circa 6m wide and 0.2deep: its south-eastern side has been artificially straightened by fencing. A short fragment of an outer bank survives to the north-east and is approximately 4m wide.
The 'enhancement' could possibly be contemporary with the deposition of the 'fossil wood' found by Hoare near the top of the barrow (1812, 123). A vegetation mark was noted on the north-east side of the barrow running north-east to south-west, which may correspond with the parish boundary. The five-handled-urn found by Hoare in the early 19th century may also be of Breton 'vase à anse' style from the period which correlates with the Wessex Early Bronze Age (EBA) and indicate the borrowing/use of continental ideas in this part of EBA Wessex (Gerloff 1975, plate 44e 108-109 (see Source 8)). .(15-16).
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(1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1961
(2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1 - The Victoria history of the counties of England Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer Page(s)212
(3) by Sir Richard Colt Hoare; introduction by Jack Simmons and D D A Simpson 1975 The ancient history of Wiltshire page(s)122
(4) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine - Thomas, N. Notes on some Early Bronze Age objects in Devizes Museum 61, 1966 Page(s)1-8
(5) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 21-JAN-1971
(6) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine - Goddard, EH. A list of the prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiuities in the county of Wiltshire... 38, 1913-14 Page(s)362
(7) General reference - Annable, FK & DDA Simpson. 1964. Guide Catalogue to the Neolithic and Bronze Age collections in Devizes Museum, p50 nos 263-6
(8) by Sabine Gerloff 1975 The Early Bronze Age daggers in Great Britain and a reconsideration of the Wessex Culture Prehistorische Bronze finds
(9) Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society Tomalin, D. Armorican Vases a Anses and their occurrence in Southern Britain 54, 1988 Page(s)203-221
(10) by Frances Blore, et al. 1995 Archaeological assessment of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and its surrounding landscape Record number 325 Page(s)109
(11) Oblique aerial photograph reference number - NMR SU 1041/10 (ACA 7368/1397) 01-JAN-1936
(12) Oblique aerial photograph reference number - NMR SU 1041/32/64-5 (930/64-5) 12-MAY-1976
(13) Oblique aerial photograph reference number - NMR SU 1041/83-4 (15205/10-11) 03-JAN-1995
(14) Oblique aerial photograph reference number - NMR SU 1041/107 (18559/29) 09-JAN-2000
(15) Field Investigators Comments - EH Field Investigation - A Komar, S Newsome, S Bax - August 2009
(16) Research Department Report Series - S Bax, MCB Bowden, AM Komar and S Newsome 2010 Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads. Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. Archaeological Survey Report. RDRS 107/2010. Swindon: English Heritage. 107-2010
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Details of Barrow on Pastscape
A Bronze Age pond barrow, the northern most barrow in a group of three round barrows situated on Ballard Down. The barrow survives as an earthwork comprising a circular depression 10 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres deep, surrounded by an outer bank one metre wide and 0.2 metres high. In 1967 finds including pottery, burnt bone and shale were recovered from the area of the outer bank by E.E Harrison. The finds are held in the Dorset Museum.
(Centred SZ 039813) Tumuli (NR) (three shown) (1)
SZ 03988132. A pond barrow with enclosed area of 33 feet in diameter by 2 1/2 feet deep and outer bank 12 feet wide x 1 foot high. Excavated by J.H. Austen in 1857 but with no result. (2-5)
Grass covered pond barrow consisting of a circular hollow 11.5 metres in diameter and 1.2 metres deep. (6)
Pond barrow, recently ploughed. Pieces of pottery, burnt bone and shale were picked up from the surface in the southeast sector of the barrow by E.E. Harrison in 1967. From their position they appeared to have come from the bank of the barrrow. (7)
SZ 03988133. A circular depression, 33 feet across and 3 feet deep with an irregular bank is more likely to be a pond than a pond barrow (but see Authority 7). (8)
No change to Authority 8 but National Grid Reference should read - SZ 03988132; Barrow on grassland, in good condition, 117m OD. Surveyed at 1:2500. (9)
One of a group of three round barrows situated on Ballard Down. The pond barrow is the northern most barrow of the three and survives as a circular depression 10 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres deep, surrounded by an outer bank one metre wide and 0.2 metres high. In 1967 finds including pottery, burnt bone and shale were recovered from the area of the outer bank by E.E Harrison. The finds are held in the Dorset Museum. (10)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" Prov Edition
( 2) General reference - Austen J.H. Purbeck Paper, 161-163
( 3) by Charles Warne 1866 The Celtic tumuli of Dorset : an account of personal and other researches in the sepulchral aounds of the Durotriges Nos 94-95b
( 4) General reference - Crana Britannica. 1865, 2 p45
( 5) by L V Grinsell 1959 Dorset barrows - Page(s)133, 172
( 6) Field Investigators Comments - F1 JR 01-SEP-1952
( 7) Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society - E E Harrison and J B Calkin 89 (1967) Page(s)140-41
( 8) by Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 Inventory of historical monuments in the county of Dorset: Vol 2, South-East (in 3 parts) - Nos 89-90 Page(s)453
( 9) Field Investigators Comments - F2 CFW 16-AUG-1985
( 10) Scheduled Monument Notification - 25-JUN-2001
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A large Bronze Age bowl barrow on Coneybury Hill, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 23. According to Stukeley, excavation in 1722 recovered a "very large brass weapon of twenty pounds weight, like a pole-axe". Grinsell suggested that this might have been a large halberd similar to one found at Leubingen, Germany. An excavation in the mid-19th century by Thurnam was apparently unproductive. A large whetstone in Salisbury Museum is labelled "King Barrow", presumably Amesbury 23. A bronze dagger and two shale cups within the same museum are also suggested to come from the same barrow. A bronze flanged axe is less certainly associated. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound 3.9 metres high and around 30 metres in diameter. Scheduled.
(SU 13554137) Tumulus (AT). (1)
Amesbury 23. "King Barrow", a bowl barrow 99 ft in diameter and 10 ft high. According to Stukeley, 'a very large brass weapon of twenty pounds weight, like a pole-axe' was found in it in 1722,? an all bronze halberd, as from Leubingen. A whetstone about 12 inches long from the barrow is in Salisbury Museum. (2)
Amesbury 23. A bowl barrow 3.9m high; slightly oval probably because of ploughing. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 23 by Goddard. (4) The finds, a flanged axe, hone, dagger and two shale cups are thought to have come from this barrow. They were part of the Job Edwards Collection presented to Salisbury Museum in 1898. (5)
SU 13544139. King Barrow scheduling amended. (7)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8-9)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1961
( 2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1 The Victoria history of the counties of England LV Grinsell: Archaeological Gazetteer Page(s)150
(4) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine EH Goddard: A list of prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiquities in the county of Wiltshire... 38, 1913-14 Page(s)167
( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 21-DEC-70
( 5) by C N Moore and M J Rowlands 1972 Bronze Age metalwork in Salisbury Museum Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum occasional publications Page(s)43-4
( 6) by Frances Blore, et al. 1995 Archaeological assessment of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and its surrounding landscape Record number 804 Page(s)271
( 7) Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduling amendment, 05-APR-1995
( 8) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR SU 1342/52 (CCC 8622/SACA445) 07-NOV-1923
( 9) Oblique aerial photograph reference number NMR SU 1341/16 (1865/173) 12-NOV-1980
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Earthwork remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow.
(SY 84299531) Tumulus (NR) (1)
Turf-coverd bowl barrow, 18.0m diameter and 1.2m high with no trace of ditch has been surveyed at SY 84269532. Known locally as 'Stand Barrow'. (2)
Approx SY 84329532. Prominent rise (listed under bowl barrows) ?22 paces diameter and ?3ft high marked as Stand Barrow on Isacc Taylor's estate map 1777 (Drax Ms in Dorset Co Museum). (3)
SY 8429531. Stand Barrow, bowl barrow, 57ft diameter and 1ft high, ploughed and situated on the summit of a small knoll. (4)
SY 84269533. 'Stand Barrow' (name in local use), a bowl barrow diameter 20.0 metres approximately, height 0.8 metres.
Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1968
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 JR 16-SEP-52
( 3) General reference Dorset Barrows 1959 89 (L V Grinsell)
( 4) General reference RCHM Dorset 2 pt 3 1970 436 No 82
( 5) Field Investigators Comments F2 JGB 15-MAY-81
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Muddox Barrow (site of)
Approx. SY 852966. Muddox Barrow (site of) Destroyed. Not shown on OS 1" 1st Ed. A flat bronze axe was found near this barrow. (see SY 89 NE 10). (1)
Perambulation of the area revealed no trace of a barrow and local enquiries produced negative information. (2)
Muddox barrow (about SY 852966), now destroyed, is shown on I. Taylor's estate map of 1777. (3)
There is no indication of a barrow in the vicinity of SY 852966 and nothing is visible on Air photographs (a). (4)
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( 1a) General reference P Dorset NH and AS 21 1900 p 50
( 1) General reference Dorset Barrows Mss 1935-54 (L V Grinsell)
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 GCS 15-NOV-54
( 3) General reference RCHM Dorset 2 pt 3 1970 435
( 4a) General reference APs (OS 80/021 164-5 223-4 18.4.80)
( 4) Field Investigators Comments F2 NJA 03-JUN-81
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Bowl barrow 320m east of Bere Down Farm, on south facing slope of Bere Down and is part of a group of seven. The barrow is 22m in diameter, c.1.5m high and surrounded by a buried ditch c.2m wide. It was partly excavated in the 19th century.
(SY 84339685) Tumulus (NR) (1)
A grass-covered ditchless bowl barrow, 23.0m diameter and 1.6m high with a slight central excavation. A 'Celtic' type lynchet merges with the barrow on its south east side. A small Bronze Age sherd was found in a mole-hill a few metres south west of the barrow. (2)
SY 84349684 Ditched bowl barrow, 74ft diameter and 7ft high marked as "Hawks Barrow" on Isaac Taylor's map 1777. It lies on a flat-topped spur, just below a 'Celtic' field lynchet (see SY 89 NW 33) and has been disturbed in the centre. A collared urn, in Dorset County Museum, apparently came from this barrow (a). (3-4)
SY 84339685. Bowl barrow, diameter 23.0 metres north-west/south-east and 20.5 metres north-east/south-west, height from 2.4 to 4.0 metres maximum. Not ploughed; in good preservation. No visible evidence of a ditch. The name 'Hawks Barrow' is not in current use.
Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)
SY 845971. Round Barrows on Bere Down. Scheduled. (Includes this barrow - see illustration). (6 - 7)
SY 84349684. Bere Regis 8. Round barrow listed, information as Authy 3. (8)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1902
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 GCS 29-SEP-54
( 3a) General reference P Dorset NH & AS 86 1964 p 115
( 3) General reference RCHM Dorset 2 pt 3 1970 437 No 112
( 4) General reference Dorset Barrows 1959 88 (L V Grinsell)
( 5) Field Investigators Comments F2 JGB 13-MAY-81
( 6) General reference DOE(IAM) AMs Eng 2 1978 59
( 7) General reference DOE(IAM) Record Form 02.09.60
( 8) General reference Dorset Barrows Supplement 1982 33 (L V Grinsell)
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Possible barrow placed on a natural rise
(SY 85709620) "Site of "Rawles Barrow" (?Tumulus)". (1)
SY 85699621. A near circular mound, 27.0 metres, diameter, 0.9 metres high taken to the north. Situated on an eastern slope and under pasture. Possibly a bowl barrow but it has more the appearance of a natural rise. No trace of a ditch or excavation.
No information regarding the name 'Rawles Barrow' was obtained during field investigation. (2)
SY 85719621. 'Rawles Barrow', (shown on I. Taylor's estate map 1777), bowl (?) barrow adjoining hedge on west side of road, is now a low oval mound 99ft. by 72ft. and heavily ploughed. (3)
Rawles Barrow (name unconfirmed) is under crop but appears to be the end of a natural ridge, which may of course have once supported a barrow, since destroyed. There is nothing on air photographs (a). (4)
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( 1a) General reference Dorset Co Mus 6"
( 1) General reference Rec 6" (ALF Rivet 21.5.53)
( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 GCS 15-NOV-54
( 3) General reference RCHM Dorset 2 pt 3 1970 437 No 113
( 4a) General reference AP's (OS 80/021 222-3 18.4.80)
( 4) Field Investigators Comments F2 NJA 28-MAY-81
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A Neolithic long barrow located on Bere Down. The barrow mound measures up to 55 metres by 24 metres and between 0.5 to 0.75 metres high. It is associated with 5 sarsen stones which were discovered during ploughing, and may relate to a chamber within the mound. The barrow was later incorporated into a prehistoric field boundary. Scheduled.
(SY 82989725) Long Barrow (NR) (1)
Long Barrow, possibly chambered (SY 82989725), lies on Bere Down, about 200 ft above Ordnance Datum, just below the crest of a broad chalk ridge, on ground sloping gently to NW, W and S, it is only seen in silhouette at close range from N and S.
On a bearing of 70o, it is 176 ft long, 65 ft wide in the middle where widest, and some 7 ft high at the E end and 6 ft at the W. A slight terrace, some 45 ft wide, parallel to the barrow on the S, probably marks the site of the ditch. The centre of the mound has been cut into from the S and the spine hollowed for 114 ft from the W end. Five sarsen boulders, none more than 2 1/2 ft long and 1 1/4 ft deep, lie scattered, two on the hollowed spine and three in the S excavation where there is a large heap of flints. The barrow was used as a 'Celtic' field boundary (see SY 89 NW 12), and lynchets run up to it, crossing the line of any ditch that may have existed on the N. The mound has been damaged by rabbits and ploughing. (2)
SY 829972. Bere Regis long barrow (Wessex No 155). Listed. (3)
Long barrow on Bere Down, ploughed and spread but still visible from a distance, although unsurveyable. (4)
SY 82989725. A long barrow, generally as described by R.C.H.M. (2), appears as a gently-sloping ridge, but from the north where the air photograph (a) shows that the barrow once formed the northern boundary of a field of the prehistoric system (SY 89 NW 12), it merges into the hillside with but a minimum of height (0.1 metres). Its length is now 50.0 metres, its width 15.0 metres maximum, and height from the south (downhill) side 1.2 metres. Resurveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (5)
The barrow mound now measures a maximum of 55 metres in length, 24 metres in width and between 0.5 to 0.75 metres in height. Scheduling revised 09/03/01. (6)
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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1968
( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume two : south-east [in three parts] Pt 3 No 66 Page(s)431
( 3) by Paul Ashbee 1970 The earthen long barrow in Britain : an introduction to the study of the funerary practice and culture of the Neolithic people of the third millennium Page(s)162
( 4) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments
( 5a) Aerial photograph APs(OS/80/021/161-2 18.4.80)
( 5) Field Investigators Comments F1 JGB 15-MAY-81
( 6) Scheduled Monument Notification EH Scheduled Monument Revision, 09-MAR-2001
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Chance was born in Ratae in the year of the Rat, and grew up in the territory of the Corieltauvi. Now living days walk west of Wale-dich (Avebury), on the border between the Atrebates, the Durotriges and the Dobunni.
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