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Easton Clump

Round Barrow(s)

<b>Easton Clump</b>Posted by ChanceImage © Chance - July 2012
Nearest Town:Marlborough (10km NNW)
OS Ref (GB):   SU21085927 / Sheet: 174
Latitude:51° 19' 53.7" N
Longitude:   1° 41' 50.62" W

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Details of Disc Barrow on Pastscape

A disc barrow with an external ditch which has in the past been interpreted as a tree ring.

(SU 21085927(1)) Easton 1a, a disc barrow at Easton Clump. Dimensions: mound 68ft in diameter X 3ft high, berm 51ft wide, bank 12ft X 1ft high, outer ditch 12ft wide X 1ft deep. (2)
The barrow has the almost unique feature of an external ditch 12ft wide X 1ft deep; it looks original (1) despite the
resemblance - as it is shown on OS 6" to a tree-ring. (1-2)
The disc barrow has an overall diameter of 67.0m and a central tump 0.8m high. A modern tree ring overlies the perimeter ditch in the SE. Surveyed at 1: 2/500. (3)
Originally recorded as Easton Royal 1a by Goddard. (4)

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( 1) General reference Pte 6" (LV Grinsell, 2.6.40)
( 2) General reference VCH Wilts, 1, pt 1, 1957, 218 (L.V Grinsell)
( 3) Field Investigators Comments F1 MHB 05-JUL-72
( 4) General reference Wilts Archaeol. Natur. Hist. Mag. 38, 1913-14. 249 (E.H Goddard)
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8th August 2012ce