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NOTE The area around this long barrow is packed with numerous monuments. This long barrow has a disc barrow and a bowl barrow placed so close to it that all three barrows have been grouped together as Monument No. 218682. |
Posted by Chance7th August 2012ce |
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Details of the Long Barrow on Pastscape Milston 1 (GRINSELL) A Neolithic long barrow, completely enclosed by a ditch, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. The barrow has been surveyed in the field and also mapped from aerial photographs. (SU 18974597) Long barrow (AT) (1) Milston 1. (SU 18974597) A long barrow; NE/SW No.78 in Neolithic Wessex Map. (2) Milston 1. A small long barrow, 46m x 25m x 1.6m. A completely enclosing ditch appears on the OS air photo, nothing nothing is visible on the ground. Surveyed at 1:2500. (3-4) Originally recorded as Milston 1 by Goddard. (5) Oriented NE-SW, the mound stands to 2m high and is 43m long and 23m wide at the broad NE end. Of the flanking ditches, that to the N survives best, being 29m long and 9m wide by 0.3m deep. There is no record of excavation. The barrow lies within ploughed down field system, and is bordered by a disc barrow (SU 14 NE 127) no more than 8m to the W, and a linear ditch (SU 14 NE), that is aligned on the broad end of the mound. Surveyed at 1:500 by RCHME Field staff as part of the SPTA Project (see archive report for further details). (6) The long barrow lies within the area covered by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project, and has been mapped using the aerial photographs mentioned in authority 3-4. (7) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date) OS 6" 1961 (2) General reference VCH Wilts 1, 1957, 142 (L.V Grinsell) (3) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/70067 277-278 03-MAY-1970 (4) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 16-JUN-71 (5) General reference Wilts Archaeol. Natur. Mag. 38, 1913-14, 289 (E.H Goddard) (6) General reference D Field/2-2-95/RCHME:SPTA Project (7) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project |
Posted by Chance 7th August 2012ce |
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Details of the Bowl Barrow on Pastscape Monument No. 915946 A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. A barrow, probably a ditched bowl barrow, is visible on APs at SU 18914592. (1) SU 18884591. A mound 0.8m high is all that remains of this barrow, though the ditch is clear on the AP. Surveyed at 1:2500. (2) SU 1887 4591. A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. The barrow is defined by a single ditch 33m in diameter and appears to have a large pit at its centre. It has been mapped, and its location revised, using the aerial photographs mentioned in authority 1. (3) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/70067 277-278 03-MAY-1970 ( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 16-JUN-71 ( 3) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project |
Posted by Chance 7th August 2012ce |
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Details of the Disc Barrow on Pastscape Monument No. 915949 A Bronze Age disc barrow has been surveyed in the field and is also visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs. SU 18934593; A barrow, probably a disc barrow visible on APs. (1) SU 18924594: A circular ditch 0.2m deep, surrounding a slightly raised interior (0.2m above normal ground level) about 40m in diameter is all that remains of this barrow though there is no visible central tump and the outer bank visible on the APs cannot be seen on the ground. Surveyed at 1:2500. (2) This disc barrow is situated on the edge of Brigmerston Field, on the false crest above the Nine Mile River. It lies between a long barrow (SU 14 NE 125) and a round barrow (SU 14 NE 126). The barrow measures 62m total diameter, consists of a central tump 17m across and 0.3m high, lying on a platform 28m diameter. This is in turn, surrounded by a ditch 7m wide and 0.5m deep, with corresponding internal bank. The NW portion of the barrow has been ploughed down. Surveyed at 1:500 by RCHME field staff as part of the SPTA Project. Further details can be found within the project archive. (3) SU 1891 4594. The barrow was mapped, and its location revised, from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project, using the photographs mentioned in authority 1. (4) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE TEXT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( 1) Vertical aerial photograph reference number NMR OS/70607 277-278 03-MAY-1970 ( 2) Field Investigators Comments F1 ANK 16-JUN-1971 ( 3) General reference D Field/2-2-95/RCHME:SPTA project ( 4) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project |
Posted by Chance 7th August 2012ce |
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A Neolithic long barrow with an enclosing ditch observed on an Ordnance Survey aerial photograph when the area was surveyed in 1970 This barrow appears as a listing on the Neolithic Wessex map and was visited by O.G.S. Crawford in the 1920's. Area is currently part of MOD ranges and public visits are not allowed. |
Posted by Chance 28th August 2011ce |
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