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Two long barrows – (SU 31933831 – A) Danebury West (SU 32023836 – B) Danebury East
A sherd of EBA “rusticated ware” found by Grinsell in the eastern end of the northern ditch of A is in Winchester Museum.
A – a rather rectangular mound with squarish eastern end and rounded tail. 66.0m in length, 28.5m in width and up to 1.8m in height at the eastern end. The mound is flanked on either side by a berm 3-4m in width, and a ditch 7.0m in width and 0.6m maximum depth. Apparently unopened although the eastern end may have been disturbed.
B – 54.0m in length and 20.0m in width with flanking side ditches, the southern being markedly deeper at 0.7m. There is a narrow depression along the length of the barrow but it appears to be otherwise undisturbed. (3)
Subjected to annual ploughing and a little more spread, but generally as described with the survey of 10 5 65 still correct.
SU33NW3||SU 31933831. Danebury West long barrow. Oriented ESE-WNW 64.0m. long and 1.8m. high, broadest and highest at the
east end. The relatively narrow mound is separated by berms about 3.0m. wide from ditches that measure 15.0m. across and
0.5m. deep.
SU 32023836. Danebury East long barrow. Similar orientation to Danebury West. The mound is 50.0m. long and 1.2m. high with ditches 10.0m. wide and 0.4m. deep.
Both mounds are now under rough pasture.

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SU 442 362: Tumuli
‘A’ a disc barrow, the central mound 44 feet in diameter and 2 feet high placed on a platform 66 feet in diameter outside of which is a ditch 15 feet wide with an outer bank of the same width. The bank and ditch have been almost ploughed out.
‘B’ is a very large example of a saucer barrow with an overall diameter of 156 feet. The central mound is 1 1/2 feet high and has the large diameter of 81 feet. It is enclosed by a ditch circa 19 feet wide and a foot deep with an outer bank 18 feet wide and 1 foot high.
‘C’ is a bowl barrow 30 paces in diameter and 4 feet high. The barrows now fall in a fir plantation. ‘C’ was previously tree-covered. An air photograph was taken of these barrows under plough by Major G W G Allen (2) Add ref (3).
A group of three barrows, one is and another appears to have been a disc barrow. The group lies in a lynchet area (SU 43 NW 3) and the lynchets deliberately avoid the barrows (4).
‘A’ SU 4430 3623; ‘B’ SU 4428 3628; ‘C’ SU 4427 3623:
‘A’ now has the appearance of a bowl shaped mound 21 metres in average diameter and 1 metres high surrounded by a ditch 4 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep with an outer bank 7 metres wide and 0.2 metres high.
‘B’ has a flattened mound, 27 metres in average diameter and 0.3 metres high surrounded by a ditch 4 metres wide and 0.2 metres deep with an outer bank 6 metres wide and 0.2 metres high.
Both ‘A’ and ‘B’ are now planted with larch and beech trees with a plantation path on the west side of each mound. Too spread to classify from their present appearance, APs 354/34/67 and 356/34/69 show ‘A’ to have had a second ditch enclosing the mound.
‘C’ is a bowl barrow, 28 metres in average diameter and 1.3 metres high with a flat top and some spreading probably by the planting of the larger trees upon it. A vague depression on the south indicates the former ditch. Published 1:2500 revised.
Barrows A and B have been severely mutilated by the construction of a forest ride and the preparation of the area for planting. Only C survives intact but this is heavily overgrown.An old Crawford collection AP X213 (by Major Allen) shows the character of A & B quite clearly.
Bronze Age saucer barrow, disc barrow and bowl barrow situated near a ridge at Crawley Clump on Crawley Down. The 3 barrows are all confluent and arranged as a triangle with the saucer barrow to the north. The mounds have all been reduced by ploughing and the saucer and disc barrows have been cut by a modern ride and farm track across the centre of the monument. The saucer barrow survives as a flattened semi circular platform cut by the road to the west and the ditch and bank are heavily disturbed. The disc barrow survives as an indistinct low mound 14 metres diameter. APs indicate a second infilled ditch between the inner mound and surrounding platform. The bowl barrow survives in better condition 26 metres diameter and 1.7 metres high surrounded by traces of the ditch which is most clearly visible to the south and which is overlapped by banks of both other barrows. A lynchet is situated 5 metres north of the monument and may be part of a contemporary field system. Scheduled. (8)

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‘A’ [SU 46285283] Tumulus [O.E.]
‘A’ – Bell barrow opened at top. (1) Bowl Barrow
‘B’ SU 46255285. Flat barrow, prob. opened. (1) Bowl Barrow.
‘A’ may be a much mutilated bell barrow but it is difficult to classify. The mound is about 25.0m in diameter, maximum height 2.6m, with a surrounding ditch 3.5m. wide, 0.3m. deep. Ploughing has encroached upon the ditch and the edge of the mound. Two ‘crater’ mutilations show an apparent internal cairn of flints. The barrow is covered with rank grass.
‘B’ is a flattened mound of flints, 15.0m. in diameter and 0.4m. high. It is surrounded by a ring of darker loam indicating a ditch. The barrow, probably of bowl type, is under plough and has a small tree on the S.W. (4)

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[’A’ – SU 48755686 & ‘B’ SU 48805679] TUMULI [O.E.] Two small bowl barrows.
‘A’ – A bowl barrow, 10.0m. in average diameter and 0.5m high with a large central mutilation. The barrow under grass, on a north-eastern slope has a surveyable ditch 4.0m wide and 0.4m deep. On the N.E. the ditch has been filled by spoil from the mound.
‘B’ – A bowl barrow, 11.0m in average diameter and 0.6m high. The barrow, under grass, on an eastern slope has an unsurveyable ditch, visible as a slight surrounding depressing. A mutilation shows the mound to be of chalk rubble.
(’C’ – SU 48785682) Large ring (? ditch) visible as texture mark.
Under pasture. Nothing visible.

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(SU 59272839) Tumuli (NR) (Two shown). Long Barrow (NR).
“Probably a double or triple barrow. Chalk on clay, ploughed”. “On second visit I decided that this is a true long barrow with side-ditches”. Shown and described as a long barrow, No 44.
Excavated by Canon Milner. Four trenches were cut in order to ascertain whether the big ditches had existed which characteristically flanked long barrows. The first, which was dug down to the level, undisturbed chalk from the rise of the
barrow in a northerly direction across the central depression revealed a ditch 20’ wide and 7’9” deep.
A series of trial pits subsequently connected up into a trench 40’ long were dug at the east end about 12’ north of the axis of the barrow in order to discover whether the ditch continued round that end or gave place to a causeway. Undisturbed chalk proved that there was no ditch.
The third trench was dug to a depth of 5’ parallel to and at a distance of 10’ north of the second. The ditch was again in evidence here.
A narrow experimental trench was dug from the north side into the middle of the mound in order to follow up a seam of dark earth. This ran right into the barrow at the level of the ancient undisturbed surface and was evidently the original top-soil of the ditch. Except for this dark earth the trench into the barrow revealed nothing whatever but chalk.
All the evidence points to a Neolithic long barrow, a rare work in this neighbourhood. During the excavations a sherd of Peterborough Ware was found – part of the rim of a bowl with finger-nail decoration. (6)
The barrow, although in arable land and xloughed, is well preserved and distinct. It is 70.0m. long and 36.0m. in maximum width, the height being 1.7m. at the east end and 0.4m. lower than this at the west end. The side ditches are visible. At the east end an old shallow quarry pit encroaches slightly on the mound.

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(SU10452039) Duck’s Nest [NAT] Long Barrow [NR] LB No 177 (1) Long barrow 50 paces long, 30 paces wide 12-15 feet high, flank ditches 7 paces wide 1 ft deep thickly covered in vegetation (2) Add Ref(3) Schedule Anc. Mon.
This long barrow is thickly overgrown and accurate measurement of its dimensions is difficult. It is between 46 and 48 metres in length and about 29 m wide. It is 3.5m high at its south end and 3.0 m high at its north end. There is a well-preserved ditch flanking its W side, 0.6 m below the ground level; the ditch on the E side is more shallow.
As described by R Work in 1954 the long barrow is preserved in a small wood.
The lack of any round barrows associated with this barrow is characteristic of long barrows on the Hants side of Bokerley Dyke.

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[SU 1015 2220] Long barrow 185ft long and 90ft wide at the south-east end and 75ft wide at the north-west end. Up to 5ft high with distinct ditches.
Long barrow oriented north-west to south-east,some 60.0m long and up to 22.0m in width with flanking ditches. The mound rises to about 2.0m in height at the south-east end and about 1.3m at the north-east end.
This long barrow has been heavily ploughed over. The ditches are no longer visible. 1:2500 Survey revised on plan. (8)
Rockbourne Down barrow. Unsual in this area in that it has a presumed round barrow, visible as a faint ring ditch, associated with it [SU 12 SW 77]. The barrow lies on the line of a possible former county boundary.

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(SU 08871987) Knap Barrow (NAT) Long Barrow (NR). 320 feet long and the longest long barrow in Hampshire. The SW side has long been under cultivation and on account of ploughing its width is not easy to ascertain, but it is probably about 100 feet wide. It is 6 feet high at SE and 4 feet high at NW. Ditches were not visible. Scheduled.
Long barrow, 95.0m. long, 12.0m. to 16.0m. wide. From 1.5m. in height at the NW end to 2.5m. at the SE end. No traces of flanking ditches. The surrounding ground is arable. The barrow is grass-covered and in good condition, apart from reduction by ploughing along the SW side. Published 1:2500 survey revised. SU 08881987. Knap Barrow is listed as a long barrow. It is fairly well-preserved and now tapered in plan.
Knap Barrow, along with Grans Barrow [SU 01 NE 19], betoken a significant Neolithic presence. Apart from these earthworks, there is relatively little to be seen at ground level where most of the actual surface remains are being so steadily spread or eroded that they will slowly become indistiguishable as relief features.

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(SU 09001978) Grans Barrow (NAT) Long Barrow (NR). Grans Barrow. Long barrow, 200 feet long, 60 feet wide, 9 feet high at SSE, 6 1/2 feet at NNW. No clear signs of ditches. Scheduled AM.
Long barrow, 63.0m. in length, 17.0m. broad. The height decreased from 2.5m. at the SE end to 2.0m. at the NW end. There are no traces of side ditches. The mound is grass covered and well-preserved, but the surrounding area is arable land. Published 1:2500 survey revised. SU 09001980. Grans Barrow is listed as a long barrow. The positions of the ditches are indicated by geophysical Survey. Neolithic long barrow, now 58m long, 19m wide and rising to a height of 2.3m above the berms which survive to a width of 8m. The ditches, which are no longer visible at ground level, survive as buried features averaging 4m in width and have been identified through magnetic survey and aerial photography. The mound is orientated SSE-NNW.

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3 barrows opened by Hoare and Cunnington in the early 19th century. Hoare’s locational information is a little vague, prompting some (such as RCHME and Grinsell) to consider them unlocated. Hoare’s account places them all southwest of Bokerley Dyke and east of Woodyates. A number of possibilities have been considered, notably barrows in the vicinity of Pentridge village (see associated monuments), and the Ordnance Survey seem to have favoured a general location in the Bokerley Down area (hence the creation of this record). However, on the basis of the information provided by Hoare, the most likely candidates are the pair of bowl barrows on Blagdon Hill (SU 01 NE 27 and 102) and the long barrow near Bokerley Gap (SU 01 NW 39). Those records should be consulted for full details of Hoare and Cunnington’s excavations.

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A bowl barrow, one of a pair located side by side, just south of Bokerley Dyke and immediately adjacent to Grim’s Ditch. Listed by RCHME as Pentridge 33 and by Grinsell as Pentridge 12, it was described by RCHME as a well-preserved mound 58 feet in diameter and 6 feet high, surrounded by a ditch 12 feet wide and 1.5 feet deep. Both of the barrows had been dug into in the past. It seems quite likley that they are to be identified with two barrows excavated by Hoare and Cunnington in the early 19th century. This identification is by no means certain, but this pair seem the most plausible candidates among the known barrows. If the identification is correct, this barrow, the larger of the pair, proved to contain “two skeletons, and several instruments of iron, viz. a lance-head, two knives, and an article of bone”. These would appear to represent interments of Saxon date, probably dating from the late 5th to early 8th century. They may be the primary interments, but it is more likely that they represent secondary, intrusive interments in an earlier, Bronze Age, barrow. Grinsell lists the barrow excavated by Hoare and Cunnington as Pentridge 13b, declaring it unlocated. See Bowen (1990) for a discussion of the relationship between the linear earthworks and the barrows in this area.

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A bowl barrow, one of a pair located side by side, just south of Bokerley Dyke and immediately adjacent to Grim’s Ditch. Listed by RCHME as Pentridge 34 and by Grinsell as Pentridge 13, it was described by RCHME as a mound 38 feet in diameter and 3.5 feet high, partially overlain on its north side by Grim’s Ditch. It appears also to partly overlie its neighbouring barrow SU 01 NE 27, although the true relationship has been obscured by excavation. That excavation appears to have been undertaken in the early 19th century by Cunnington and Hoare, although the identification is not completely ceetain. However, this barrow seems the most plausible candidate for the one in which they found a large urn with its mouth placed upwards, and within it an interment of burned bones. The top of the urn seems to have been covered by two flat pieces of flint. A little further toward the south they discovered a large pit three feet deep, on the floor of which was a small Beaker-type pottery vessel. Grinsell lists the barrow excavated by Cunnington and Hoare as Pentridge 13c, declaring it unlocated. See SU 01 NE 27 for additional information and sources.

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Bowl barrows; ‘A’ surrounded by visible ditch, hollow in centre. (’A’ dia 20 paces, height 4 ft ‘B’ dia 20 paces, height 6 ft)
A. Diameter 19.0 m; height 1.5 m. Excavated at the top. Surrounding ditch approximately 2.0 m wide and 0.3 m deep.
B. Diameter 18.0 m; height 1.9 m. There appears to be a surrounding ditch 1.5 m wide and 0.5 m deep.
Both these bowl barrows have been excavated. The ditch measurements are approximate in each case since the ground was under snow at the time of investigation.
Tumuli (OE) SU 05541810 & 05561811.
Martin 26 and 27 are contiguous ditched bowl barrows contained in the north-west angle between Bokerley Dyke and linear [SU 01 NE 34] near the shoulder of Blagdon Hill. Both have been excavated, almost certainly by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1805 and seemingly again by W Chaffers in 1842. if this interpretation is correct, both contained cremations in large ‘sepulchral urns’, one. probably (26), being covered by an ‘immense heap of flints’ and the other said still to retain a covering of ‘linen cloth’. Chaffers also found a ‘sepulchral urn’ in a chalk-cut cist, under each. These, as illustrated, are Deverel-Rimbury.

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The Grim’s Ditch on Cranborne Chase is a complicated system of bank-and-ditch features, enclosing (by accident or design) an area of approximately 14.5 Sq miles. The various lengths overshoot, digress and leave gaps in places. Field work and excavation c1943 by C M Piggott led to the following conclusions:
a. The system is not a unitary work, but a complex of separate pieces.
b. The pieces were probably nor coeval. The northern and eastern sides were both almost certainly LBA, but the southern side is more likely to have been IA.
c. The features probably represent some form of land division, and are akin to the LBA ‘ranch boundaries’ (Extent on Map strips after Piggott and Sumner) (1)

(17) Grim’s Ditch in the extreme NE of the parish and adjacent to (16), is part of a complex of boundary ditches which extends for nearly nine miles from west to east across Cranborne Chase. Most of the complex lies in Hampshire and it will be described, as a whole in the Inventory of that County; it also continues into the extreme S of Wiltshire. The Dorset section (map opp. p 53 and plate 56) comprises a bank and ditch just over 1.5 miles long, extending NW from Blagdon Hill (SU05551802) in two straight alignments to the vicinity of the Epaulement (SO03741962), the earthwork which projects SW from Bokerley Dyke (16) and represents part of an early phase in the development of that Monument. For much of its length the Dorset section of Grim’s Ditch has been flattened by ploughing, but where best preserved on Blagdon Hill, it comprises a bank 20ft across and up to 3ft high with a ditch 16ft across and 2ft deep along the NE side. On Blagdon Hill the earthwork turns E and after passing under Bokerley Dyke continues on Tidpit Common Down, but the 300ft length immediately W of the dyke has been levelled. At the NW end ploughing has obliterated the relationship of Grim’s Ditch with Bokerley Dyke and the Epaulement; it is possible that it continued NW on the line later followed by Bokerley Dyke.
The Grim’s Ditch complex almost certainly evolved over a lengthy period, extending from the Bronze Age probably into Romano-British times. As yet, however, only the stretch on Martin Down (SU045201), just across the county boundary with Hampshire, has been satisfactorily dated; a length of 300ft was excavated by Pitt-Rivers and found to be of the Bronze Age (Pitt-Rivers, Excavations 1V 190). This complex of boundary ditches is no more than part of a former system of land allotment and utilisation, into which adjacent hill-forts, settlements, ‘Celtic’ fields and also barrows were integrated (2)

SU05651802-SU09441894; SU11601894-SU14532407; SU05162203 – SU14262320; SU03981930 – SU05551803. Grim’s Ditch [NR] (3)

The term ‘Grim’s Ditch’ is a folkname. The term ‘Grim’ is Saxon and is equatable with ‘woden’ which by a process of christian association explains why ‘Devil’s Ditch’ was the countryman’s name. Sumner describes Grim’s ditch as a ‘continuous earthwork... across the eastern portion of Cranborne Chase. The length of its course is about fourteen miles’. However, this is misleading as there are considerable diversities in the plan.
A weak case could be made for the whole being a stock enclosure with the ditch conventionally facing inwards and the linear west from Rentridge (16) A to West Woodyates might form a ‘funnel’ through which deer could be driven. These ditches may have been to do with stock control but it is known that they had origins at varying dates, experienced different stages, and certainly manifested diverse physical forms. However the shallow ditch of Pentridge (17) and the large sections of Martin (80) on Knoll Down or Damerham Ridge indicate a considerable diversity of size. The great variations in size and form on continuous runs are indeed very difficult to rationalise. The dating of all these features is uncertain and, as with the inextricably involved strands of the Bokerley Line, it has to be asked again whether or when all the pieces functioned as a whole (4)

SU03102090- SU04102088 – SU04502136
Section of Grim’s Ditch and associated earthwork scheduled 25608 (5)

SU 05641801 – SU 07351829. Section of Grim’s Ditch, running eastwards along a ridge from Bokerley Dyke on Blagdon Hill. Scheduled. (6)

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(SU 06421810) Long barrow: a low flat mound, length 28 paces, width 12 paces, maximum height 3 ft? on E-W.
In former arable land, on line of Grims Ditch (Lin.76), which has used it, – hence bend; highest in middle, no sign now of side ditches. The above may be a short stretch of Grims Ditch itself. A doubtful long barrow 28 paces long, 20 paces wide and 3 ft. high. Ditches, if they exist, are very vague. Omitted from the list of Hants long barrows. A probable long barrow, situated on a ploughed downland ridge, approx 30.0m. in length, 20.0m. in breadth and 1.0m. in height; there are no visible side ditches.The present condition of the mound renders accurate observation difficult but the following points in favour of its classification as a long barrow should be noted.
1. Orientation – NW/SE
2. If one accepts the accuracy of representation by the OS, under what were presumably more favourable conditions, then the mound and Grims Ditch are not contemporary.
3. The present comparative sizes of the remains of the mound and Ditch (both presumably having been subjected to a similar degree of mutilation) suggest that the mound was originally of considerably larger proportions than Grims Ditch.
4. Finally the measurements of this much-ploughed mound are comparable to Long Barrow (SU 02 SW 34), and well within the limits of the so-called ‘short’ long barrow.
This feature has been almost completely ploughed out and is now 0.3m in height.. Its identification as a long barrow must remain in doubt. SU 06421810. The elongated barrow at Tidpit antedates Grims Ditch. Air photographs and geophysical survey suggest two components within the mound and an uninterrupted ditch around it. Classification as a single elongated barrow.
The barrow has been completely ploughed out, together with the scarp of Grims Ditch on the east and west of it.
SU 06421810. Elongated barrow. Large irregular mound, [probably in part the result of disturbance. Air photo. Discussion of relationship to Grims Ditch.
Remains of an elongated barrow on the line of the later Grims Ditch. It has been levelled by ploughing but remains visible as soil marks on aerial photographs and has also been the subject of a geophysical survey. The barrow is about 30 metres long and 19 metres wide. Scheduled.

(’A’ – SU 04151877 & ‘B’ – SU 04191871) Tumuli (NR) (One long barrow and one round barrow) (’C’ – SU 04171870) Earthwork (NR). On Bokerly Down is a small enclosure 15 yds square, with a low vallum, the enclosed area being raised to the top of the bank. In the south west there is a possible entrance. Situated near a tumulus and a long mound. (2)
(’A’) A fine long barrow, over 300 ft long. (3)
‘A’ is a long barrow some 80.0m in length by 14.0m in width and up to 2.4m in height at its southern or ‘business’ end. It is orientated almost due north to south and both side ditches are visible.
‘B’ is a bowl barrow 17.5m in diameter by 0.6m in height. There are very faint traces of a ditch on the south side.
‘C’ now appears as a slightly raised square platform some 17.5m square and up to about 0.7m in height. No trace of a ditch or an entrance is now visible. Its probable original form can be clearly seen on air photograph 240 by A Keiller, where it appears to be a square enclosure with slight bank and outer ditch. But no entrance.

Long Barrow (SU 04161876), on Bokerley Down lies on the north slope of a low spur and is aligned north north west – south south east on the north east end of the Cursus. Ploughing has largely obliterated the side ditches and has damaged the mound; it is now 300 ft long, and 60 ft across and 8 ft high at the south east end, but narrower and lower at the north west end.
Bowl (SU 04201871), close to the south east end of long barrow; diameter 45 ft, height 1 1/2 ft. (5)
Pentridge 43 [’C’] SU 04181869 Small square enclosure, length of side 15.5 to 18.5m, immediately S of long barrow. Aligned NE-SW; labelled ‘enclosure’ on some OS maps and drawn as scarped square; Crawford described as ‘platform’ surrounded by slight ditch (Crawford and Keiller 1928). (6-7)

NB this record now deals solely with the long barrow. The round barrow (SU 01 NW 211) and the square feature (SU 01 NW 212) have now been recorded separately.

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A long barrow, listed by RCHME as Pentridge 20 and by Grinsell as Pentridge I. Located on Bokerley Down, it is aligned north northwest-south southeast, the northerly end pointing towards the northeastern terminal of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41) circa 350 metres to the north. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1969 described the barrow as a mound circa 80 metres in length and 14 metres in width, standing up to 2.4 metres in height at its southern “business” end. Both side ditches were still visible as surface features. A round barrow (SU 01 NW 211) and a small sqaure feature (SU 01 NW 212) are located immediately to the south.

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A Neolithic long barrow, listed by RCHME as Pentridge 23 and by Grinsell as Pentridge III. Located immediately west of Bokerley Dyke and a short distance north of the northeastern terminal of the Dorset Cursus (Linear 41). RCHME were intiially uncertain as to whether or not this mound was in fact a long barrow, largely because of the extent of plough damage, though it was noted that Grinsell had observed side ditches, these also being visible on air photographs. At the time, RCHME measured the mound as being 95 feet by 70 feet, aligned broadly southeast-northwest, and 4 feet high. Subsequently RCHME (in Bowen 1990, 1991) confirmed identification as a long barrow with large side ditches. Bowen (1991) also identified this mound with one dug into by Cunnington and Hoare in the early 19th century, based on Hoare’s published description and map of sites in the vicinity. Both Grinsell and RCHME had previously assumed that Hoare was referring to a round barrow (unnumbered by RCHME, but listed as Pentridge 13d by Grinsell). Hoare described the mound as being surrounded by large sarsen stones. His finds were purely Saxon, relating to an intrusive 7th century burial. Within the mound, he found a small hook, a buckle and a clench bolt, plus an ivory ring (representing a bag or pouch). Below was an extended female inhumation, near the head of which were two further clench bolts. Grave goods included a biconical gold bead, 2 glass beads, one of them threaded on a gold wire ring, a jet bead, and a millefiori plaque suspended from a gold chain. The ornaments have been suggested to represent the remains of a rich necklace and linked pin suite, while the iron objects have been suggested to represent the surviving traces of a bed or similar structure on which the corpse was interred.

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(SU 03552042) Long Barrow (OE) This is situated near the boundary between Hants and Wilts but is actually in Hants. The mound in 110 ft long and 60 ft wide and is 8 ft high. The flank ditches are 18 ft wide and about 2 ft deep. It is a well preserved example with the mound gently increasing in height towards the SE. The ditch is better preserved on the W.
This barrow measures 38 metres NW-SE and 24m SW-NE. There is a ditch on the W side but only rather vague traces of one on the E side. The barrow is 1.8m in height (slightly higher at the SE end) and 2.4m above the bottom of the ditch.

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SU 03412114. Broad Chalke 11, a long barrow west of Vernditch Chase, found by Grinsell in 1937. Orientated E/W with good side-ditches, 76ft long x 52 ft wide and 4ft high. SU 03412113: A rather small long barrow 28.0m long NE-SW, by 18.0m transversely. It averages 0.9m in height with side ditches up to 0.4m deep and 5.0 m wide. The area is now afforested and the southern ditch has been almost entirely obliterated. Re-surveyed at 1:2500. (3)

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An earthwork enclosure in Mistleberry Wood, immediately adjacent to the Wiltshire border. Described by RCHME as an unfinished hillfort, it occupies a less than ideal defensive location on the southern slope of a spur, overlooked by higher ground to the northeast. The enclosing earthworks consist of a bank with external ditch. Assuming that a complete enclosure was the intention, the eastern half is more or less complete, with a southeast facing entrance gap. On the northwest, the bank gradually reduces in height, while the ditch becomes a series of shallow pits. No earthworks are evident in the southwest quadrant (this area may, of course, have been enclosed by some other, non-earthwork, means). At its maximum extent, the bank is 24 feet wide and 4 feet high. The ditch is also a maximum of circa 24 feet wide. If complete, the earthworks would enclose an area of circa 2 acres. The site is probably to be identified with Mealeburg, which is mentioned in a charter of 956 AD. Otherwise there is no dating evidence, although an Iron Age date is commonly assumed.

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(A: SU 0001 2206 and B: 0003 2205) Tumuli (NR).
Four bowl barrows, OS 6” shows only two (see plan (4)) on Woodminton Down, excavated by Dr R C C Clay in 1925 (2). A large number of cremated interments were found in urns of the Deveril-Rimbury type. All the finds went to Devizes Museum.
Bower Chalke 1 (A), 14 paces in diameter by 2 ft in height. A primary inhumation was inferred; secondary Bronze Age cremations in the southeast part of the mound, 18 in barrel urns and 3 in globular urns, all upright, each probably originally covered by a stone slab.
Bower Chalke 2 (C: SU 0002 2205 (4)) 10 paces in diameter by 1 ft in height. Three cremations were found in barrel urns, one perhaps primary, the others presumed secondary, all upright (one with the accessory vessel). There was a ditch on the south only: in it a broken urn and sherds showing at least one further secondary destroyed; alos stone slabs presumed to be covers from secondaries.
Bower Chalke 3 (B) 10 paces in diameter by 1 ft in height. A primary inhumation inferred from human leg bones found near the centre.
Bower Chalke 4 (D) SU 004 2205, 13 paces in diameter by 1 ft in height. A primary cremation among ashes, with a smashed barrel urn two feet away which, in Clay’s opinion (4), was undoubtedly the receptacle for the cremation. Disturbance with many Romano-British sherds and (presumed from a destroyed secondary) fragments of a Deveril-Rimbury urn. (2-4)

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(SU 0180 2812) Chiselbury Camp (NR). An Iron Age univallate hill-fort (see plan (3) and air photographs (4)) enclosing 8 1/2 acres, with an entrance at the south east, where there is a slight semi-circular outwork. The interior is arable.
Bivallate ditches run from the north side to the edge of the escarpment and from the south-east outwork towards the bottom of the combe (3) and possibly beyond in a southerly direction (5). Dr R C C Clay (3) has found Iron Age pottery just outside the camp and a lead spindle-whorl or net-sinker possibly Romano-British, both surface finds. The Rev G H Engleheart (3) has a coin of Constantine 1, found within the camp. (2-5)

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(Centred at SU 04312004) Martin Down Camp (NR) Pastoral enclosure of proved Bronze Age. Martin Down Camp. Excavation by General Pitt-Rivers proved it Bronze Age, possibly an unfinished settlement (1). Excavated Nov 1895 – March 1896. BA with later RB occupation. (Article contains complete excavation report. Pottery found included Roman and RB ware. Martin Down Camp. Characteristic type of LBA enclosure – formed of a complete or more or less incomplete (sic) square or oblong of single ditch and low bank. A ‘boundary ditch’ passes 500 ft east of the enclosure. Pitt-Rivers excavated 300 ft of its length and assigned it (from the stratified pottery) to the same LBA occupation as the enclosure. (Wilts 71 SW 13) LBA enclosure (2). Martin Down Camp consists of a bank and outside ditch forming an almost compelte sub-rectangular enclosure. Only a portion of the NW side exists. The NE and SE sides are the best preserved and they are both pierced by ‘entrances’. Only a part of the LBA boundary ditch to the east of the enclosure (see 4) can now be traced owing to ploughing. This ditch has been included with Wilts 71 SW/13 as being part of Grim’s Ditch.

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(SU 07892189) Furze Down long barrow found 20.3.1939 by Mr. S. Piggott”. At present under plough, it is 178’ long and 80’ wide, with flank ditches 30’ wide and less than a foot deep. The mound is less than 3’ high, and is placed west and east, with the higher end at the west- an unusual feature. There are signs of former digging near the east end”. SU 07912189. Furze Down long barrow has been almost levelled by ploughing, and further disturbed by construction of a reservoir at its centre. SU 07912189. The long barrow mound is plainly visible, about 40 metres long and 15 metres wide and 0.6 metres high at maximum. A small reservoir has been built roughly on the centre of the barrow but has not destroyed the mound.

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(SU 06382060) A much mutilated and overgrown mound which is probably a long barrow since the track leading up to it from the south is known locally as ‘Longbarrow Lane’. It is from 37 to 40 metres in length, 9m. wide, 1.0m. in height on the N side and about 2.0m. in height on the S side. It is orientated approx. NW-SE.
A boundary hedge runs along the top of the mound which is considerably overgrown with trees. Much mutilated, it now has no very regular shape. Any vestige of a ditch has been expunged on the S side by a trackway and on the N side by cultivation.
The barrow at the end of Long Barrow Lane was a familiar object to open field farmers in the Middle Ages, who described the furlongs in its vicinity by their position in relation to it, eg above, below beyond or at Long Barrow (b). Four trackways or paths converge upon it, and it was a point on the boundary demarcating the tithings of West and East Martin.
The remains described in Authy 1 are extremely vague and fragmentary, but the evidence in Authy 2, the place-name etc and general topo position of the mound strongly suggests this to be the remains of a long barrow.

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(SU 03192116) Kitt’s Grave (NAT). Almost certainly the ‘Cotelesburgh (Cotel’s Barrow) of a Saxon charter of Damerham (B817) and the ‘Chetoles Beorh’ of another of Bower Chalke (B917). The adjacent place-names ‘Catler’s Corner’ and Chettle Head Copse’ are also from the name ‘Cotel’. No mound or other significant feature located. Local tradition is that Kitt was a gipsy who died at this spot and was buried in Martin churchyard; but this (whether or not genuine) is probably a superimposition on a long-standing Cotel/Kitt name. The barrow may in fact have been that seen 300 metres to the east (SU 02 SW 18). (4)

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(SU 03582346) Tumulus (NR). Broad Chalke 3, a slightly elongated bowl barrow, 15 paces in diameter by 9 ins in height. Called Gawen’s Barrow by Aubrey. The family of Gawen had had associations with this part of Wiltshire for almost 600 years by Colt Hoare’s time (4). (2-4) The barrow is now ploughed out; its site is indicated in the arable by a vague unsurveyable ground swelling and strong concentration of surface flints.

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A Middle Bronze Age bowl barrow, one of a group of six located to the northeast of the South Lodge enclosure (ST 91 NE 9), within its associated field system (ST 91 NE 33). Unlike the other barrows in thr group, it was not given a number by Pitt Rivers, and neither did he excavate it, because it had been destroyed before he moved to the area. He was able to recover some potsherds which had been retained by the estate carpenter, however. In 1954 the Ordnance Survey recorded “the rim of a presumed bowl barrow...10 metres in diameter and 0.4 metres high”. Three trenches were dug in the area where the barrow was located during Barrett et al’s 1977-84 excavations on Cranborne Chase. The ground in this area wasobserved to have been disturbed, and the trenches were dug across a well-defined north-south scarp in the hope of revealing any ditch which may have been associated with the barrow. A series of heavily disturbed deposits were found, mainly attributable to 19th century quarrying, and a water pipe was also found to run through the area. A series of irregular hollows contained some worked flint, and a couple of ditch-like features were observed, but nothing was encountered that could be regarded as a barrow ditch. This site was originally recorded as part of ST 91 NE 3. That record should be consulted for additional sources and

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(Centred ST 954175) A group of lyncheted fields in Rushmore Park, surveyed by Toms between 1912 and 1924. He believes them to predate the Bronze Age barrows (ST 91 NE 3) and the Late Bronze Age pastoral enclosure at South Lodge (ST 91 NE 9). Crawford, however, considers that the lynchets cannot be older than the earthworks. The lynchets are clearly visible on the western slopes, and near the South Lodge they follow the contours.

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(Centered SU 015 216) Field System. “There are pronounced Celtic type lynchets throughout the area delineated, chiefly betwen the 500 and 600 ft contours. On the hilltops they are scattered and weak and rarely above 0.5m high”. (Names SU 006 221 and SU 023 221) Field System (NR). (Centred SU 017 216) A field system in the Woodminton Down East and Marleycombe Hill area. This Celtic field system is somewhat complex, evidence on Marleycombe Hill (See SU 02 SW 8) suggests two or possibly three phases. The fields have largely been destroyed by modern cultivation, but 35 hectares at SU 005 220; 4 1/2 hectares at SU 023 225 and 3 hectares at SU 034 221, survive with banks and terraces an average 1.0m high. A rapid examination of air photography (7a) shows the field system visible north of Hut Farmhouse, around SU 038 228.

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(SU 0224 2246 to SU 0263 2239) Ditch (NR). A winding univallate ditch, over 300 yds long, on Marleycombe Hill (2), now partially ploughed out (3). It apparently bends to avoid the barrows Bower Chalke 9-11 (SU 02 SW 5) and is earlier than the surrounding field system (SU 02 SW 1). It is uncertain whether the apparent continuation to the southeast is part of the ditch or a lynchet. Ground checked by C M Piggot in 1951. The eastern end of this linear has been ploughed out but the remainder, including scoops of a possible settlement area at SU 0215 2244, is grass covered and in good condition. Contrary to authority 2’s assessment the linear seems to be later than the field system.

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A Late Bronze Age settlement enclosure with associated field system with lynchets and round barrow cemetery containing 6 barrows situated 145 metres north 350 metres east of Rushmore Farm. It has a sub rectangular enclosure of about 0.3 hectares bounded by a low bank with a surrounding ditch with a single causeway leading to an entrance. The round barrow cemetery developed over a long period of time predating the enclosure and continuing in use throughout its occupancy. The field system includes banks of rectangular fields which predate the enclosure and cemetery but also continued in use throughout the period of occupation. Excavation in 1893 recovered a range of Bronze Age finds including beaker pottery, a bronze chisel or awl, two bronze razors and a looped spearhead. Roman pottery was found in the upper parts of the enclosure ditch and throughout the area. Other finds included flint scrapers, a sandstone saddle-quern and animal bones. The earthwork was restored after the 19th century excavation. Further excavations took place in 1978. Scheduled.

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(A: SU 0233 2256, B: SU 0235 2257, C: SU 0234 2248, D: SU 0235 2249, E: SU 0236 2249 and F: SU 0234 2257) Tumuli (NR).
Six bowl barrows (see plan (3)) on Marleycombe Hill, excavated by Dr R C C Clay in 1926 (4), when urns of the Deveril-Rimbury type were found. The finds went to Devizes Museum.
Bower Chalke 6 (A: SU 0233 2256) 11 paces in diameter and 1 ft in height. A central cairn previously disturbed, leaving no trace of a primary. To the east was an inverted Bronze Age barrel urn (secondary?) with no trace of burnt bones or ashes. A Beaker sherd was in the material.
Bower Chalke 7 (F: SU 0234 2257), 10 paces in diameter and 1 ft in height. The remains of a primary (crouched?) skeleton;
an empty cist to the south. Secondary adult cremation near the northeast corner of the grave, with Bronze Age sherds.
Bower Chalke 8 (B: SU 0235 2257) 15 paces in diameter and 3 ft in height. A primary interment of two crouched skeletons, one
with beaker. In material of mound a fragment of a flat bottomed vessel the paste and texture of which were similar to that of bowls from Windmill Hill (3); Romano British sherds superficially.
Bower Chalke 9 (C: SU 0234 2248) 9 paces in diameter and 1 1/2 ft in height. The primary cremation of an adult, mixed with ashes, disturbed, and urn possibly removed by previous excavators.
Bower Chalke 10 (D: SU 0235 2249) 8 paces in diameter and 2 ft in height. Previously disturbed, and central cist empty. To the southeast were two Bronze Age barrel urns, one upright and the other inverted, each containing a cremation and both in the same cist (secondary).
Bower Chalke 11 (E: SU 0236 2249) 9 paces in diameter and 2 ft in height. A cremation beneath an inverted Bronze Age barrel urn 5 ft southeast of the centre but probably the primary interment. Near this on the west a small cist with cremation, presumed secondary.
Colt Hoare (5) shows seven barrows here on his map, but one may be the mound shown on OS 6” at SU 0201 2228.

Three of these barrows were excavated by John Burroughs in 1883. In one he found an unburnt skeleton, parts of which he removed, above which was a Bronze Age barrel urn. It appears to have been empty. Grinsell (2) queries whether it came from Bower Chalke 7. It went to Salisbury Museum. He also found (in barrows 9 and 10?) a large and small urn now lost (Dr Blackmore’s ‘Locked Notebook’ in Salisbury Museum). Clay (3) suggests, on the assumption that the top soil used in the construction of barrows 6-8 was gathered from their immediate neighbourhood, that the presence of beaker fragments, pot-boilers, pieces of sandstone and black soil, indicates that there was a Beaker settlement close by. The remains of a Beaker floor were found beneath the top soil over which burrows 9-11 were constructed.
Clay could not substantiate his opinion by trial trenching and the signs of habitation appear to spread over most of the northern crest of (Marlycombe) Hill. (2-6)
It is clear from Grinsell’s Pte 6” that he has numbered Clay’s barrows 1-3 in reverse order ie the NGR’s as given in VCH 1 are not applicable to the dimensions and the other details taken from Clay’s account. On this card the details have been applied to the barrows in their correct plan position taken from Clay’s account, and Grinsell’s numbers have been applied to the same NGRs as given in his list. (7)

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A long barrow, 97 feet long, 70 feet wide, 14 feet high in 1812, but more recently 10 feet high apparently oriented east south east/west north west. It was excavated in 1804 by W Cunnington, who found a layer of charred wood and ashes possibly from platform cremations, but no primary burials in the mound, one accompanied by sword, knife, spearhead, umbo and other objects. All the finds seem to have been lost. It was re-opened by Thurman and the Rev A Fane in 1856 but without result. The mound is much damaged by ploughing and other mutilations and there is no indication of flanking ditches.

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Earthworks of a long barrow. Field investigations in 1975 found it to measure 45 metres in length, 17 metres wide, and up to 3 metres high. Its centre had been quarried away.

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(ST 95153849) Tumulus (NR). Boyton. A bowl barrow, 25 paces in diameter and 10 feet high. It was excavated by W Cunnington who found a primary cremation and 13 intrusive, Romano-British or more probably Saxon inhumation burials. ST 95153849. This bowl barrow is 21 metres in diameter and 4 metres high. Published 1:2500 survey revised.Bowl barrow situated 300 metres to the east of Boyton Field Barn. The barrow comprises a conical mound 25 metres in diameter and about 3 metres high.

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A henge monument on Sutton Common extant as an earthwork. The site has been surveyed by RCHME as part of the South Wiltshire project. Circa 0.2 hectares in area, it is defined by a bank circa 10 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with an internal ditch circa 10 metres wide and 1 metre deep. Numerous hollows along its course suggest that the ditch was of segmented character. The maximum diameter is circa 80 metres, and a aingle entrance is located to the southwest. A causeway 7 metres wide connects the entrance to a sub-square central platform area circa 35 metres in diameter. The site has previously been considered a saucer barrow or a Medieval ringwork. Although seemingly atypical of henges, the form of the enclosure is not unknown among the variety of sites regarded as henges, particularly the pit-defined enclosures.

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A slight univallate hillfort at Fox Covert situated at the west end of a steep sided spur. The earthworks enclose approximately 3.25 hectares and are for the most part determined by the natural contours, except at the east end where they cut across the spur. The approach at the east end is almost level and the defences here include a substantial outer ditch 7.5 metres wide, that was recorded as being 1.8 metres deep in 1875, but has since been largely backfilled with modern building material. Behind the ditch is a slight bank about 0.3 metres high which has been much reduced by ploughing. There are two gaps in the defences on this side, one of which may represent an original entrance. The remainder of the defences run along or just below the edge of the spur. On the north and west sides these consist of a scarp, a ditch and a low counterscarp bank. These terminate on the west side at a point of later quarrying and survives best on the north side where the ditch is approximately 3 metres wide. The counterscarp bank is up to 3 metres wide and 1 metre high in places, although elsewhere it is only 0.3 metres high. The south and south west sides are formed by simple scarping. This is clearly in evidence on the south side but is less pronounced on the south west side. Scheduled.

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(ST 78623765) Tumulus (GT) Excavated by Colt Hoare; a low tumulus which he found to have ‘once contained a skeleton’ but to have been disturbed, probably by the county boundary ditch. He found many fragments of ‘ancient pottery’ near it and, in the boundary ditch, several small brass coins of the Lower Empire; these he supposed to be connected with a beacon rather than a settlement, for which he held the site to be unsuitable. Indentified by VCH as a bowl barrow, 13 paces in diameter and 3ft high. MOW records describe it as a disc barrow, 66ft in diameter, 18” high, with a ditch 2ft deep. The centre had been dug out for a concrete trig-pillar. It was under grass in 1955. A bowl barrow 14.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, not 3ft as Grinsell says. Its perimeter consists of a small bank, about 1.0m wide and 0.1m high with, on the E and W, an equally weak ditch – 1.0m wide and 0.2m deep. This has presumably given rise to the MOW disc barrow identification. The bank and ditch are unlikely to be original features but were probably created after Hoare’s excavation in the fashion of a tree ring. A hollow 4.0m wide and 0.2m deep in the centre of the mound could represent site of a tree or Hoare’s excavation. The N side of the barrow has been destroyed by the Parish boundary ditch. The area is under pasture and the narrowness of the ridge would, as Hoare states, be unsuitable for a settlement. The Roman coins found by him may indicate casual occupation. His suggestion of a beacon site is obviously speculative.

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ST 705 445. Excavations in the rock shelter called “Tom Tivey’s Hole”, revealed sherds comprising an almost complete profile of around based bowl of Abingdon ware, also the pointed end of a probable Neolithic bone awl. Finds also included a gold stud of post medieval date, and pottery of the same period; late Iron Age and Romano-British pottery, and similarly dated pottery; Neolithic potsherds plus human remains, and lithic items including a leaf shaped arrowhead and a barbed and tanged arrowhead. An object described as a gold band may be Bronze Age or Roman.
Tom Tivey’s Hole is a natural rock shelter at the foot of a cliff face at ST 7051 4447. The entrance is 4.0m wide by 2.5m high and the roof slopes down to the floor 3.5m in from the entrance. Surveyed at 1/2500. A full report of the excavations which was conducted by Mr. John Barrett, is being prepared. The material from this excavation and a bone pottery stamp (AO/64/88/1-4), found during field investigation is in Bristol Museum. Excavation of Tom Tivey’s Hole was commenced in 1958. The Ne pottery was later identified as Windmill Hill ware, and other finds included a gold band, presumably of BA date, a barbed & tanged arrowhead, and Ro. pottery.

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[ST 798439] RODDENBURY CAMP [GT] Roddenbury Camp is a univallate hill Fort, (150 yds by 75 yds), in the N.E. corner of Longleat Wood. Only a scarp remains of the bank on the north; the ditch has been filled up on North and West. The entrance seems to have been on the west. Roddenbury hill-fort occupies a prominent hill-top position. It is in a plantation of young beech trees with dense undergrowth of brambles and bracken and cannot be adequately examined. [See illust (b)]
It appears from the AP’s to have been of triangular plan but only on the E. side is the rampart and ditch well preserved. There is a short section of denuded rampart on the W; elsewhere the hill fort has been destroyed by earth digging. It is uncertain whether the gap for a bridle path in the western side is an original feature although the approach from the W. is
relatively easy.

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[ST 7699 4346] TUMULUS [G.T.] (1) Grinsell considers this to be a barrow, and it was regarded as such by Collinson and Skinner. It is a grass covered, circular mound with a maximum height, on the north, of 1.9m, but appears to have been dug away on the south where it slopes down to ground level. It seems too small to have been a motte and its appearance is much more in keeping with a robbed bowl barrow. (See G.P. AO/64/266/3). Re-surveyed at 1:2500.

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(ST 763347) Camp (NR) An IA ? bivallate hill-fort, at Park Hill, Stourton, is of approximately 6 acres in extent. There are entrances on the east and west and it is naturally defended by steep slopes. An IA fort of two-period construction, situated at a height of about 213m OD, on a narrow Greensand ridge with steep slopes on the north east and south west.
The first occupation phase is represented by the outer work which comprises a substantial rampart, outer ditch and counterscarp bank (see sections) enclosing an area of 2.3 hectares. There are two entrances : one on the north west side (damaged by a later track), the other at the south east corner (bisected by an old boundary bank).
The inner work is D-shaped in plan with sharp north west and south west angles. It measures internally 130m north west-south east by 98m transversely, enclosing an area of 1 hectare. The rampart measures 8m in width and a maximum of 1m in height; the external, rather flat-bottomed ditch is 6m wide and varies between 0.3m and 1.2m deep.
The uneven appearance of the bank and ditch, particularly on the south west side, leaves little doubt that the second phase is unfinished. There is an ‘off-set’ entrance in the south east side. The interior is featureless. The site is covered by trees, but is otherwise in good condition. The topographical situation, on a heavily wooded narrow Greensand ridge, together with the general plan and ‘off-set’ entrance, are reminiscent of the Wealden fort at Hammer Wood, Iping, Sussex (see SU 82 SW 1).

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(ST 74573541) Jack’s Castle Tumulus (GT) (1) A bell barrow, called Jack’s Castle or Selwood Barrow, measuring 66ft in diameter, 10ft high, with a berm 15ft wide and 1ft deep. It was excavated by Colt Hoare and found to comprise soft sand covering a cairn of ‘picked flint’ which contained a primary cisted cremation burial. This was accompanied by a flat bronze dagger with a wooden sheath and a battle axe of non-ophitic dolerite, (Petrological Classn No 292) now in Devizes Museum. As described by Grinsell except that the ditch is now only traceable in the eastern half and is narrower and shallower than when he visited the barrow. Somewhat overgrown with laurel etc but undisturbed by afforestation. 1:2500 survey revised.

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A Bronze Age bell barrow located north of Normanton Gorse, and listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 15. Excavated by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century, he found a primary inhumation laid on an elm plank. The interment was accompanied by a bronze dagger in a wooden box, a small bronze knife-dagger, antlers and a pottery vessel described as a ‘drinking cup’, usually regarded as being a Beaker, though this need not be the case. Traces of three wooden poles were observed extending from the primary interment to the top of the barrow. All the finds except the bronze dagger, which is in Devizes Museum, are lost. The barrow is still extant as an earthwork. Scheduled.

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3 Bronze Age bowl barrows located on Charlton Down 860 metres east of Netherley Farm and surviving remnant of a larger round barrow cemetery which has been mainly levelled by ploughing. Scheduled.

This group has been reduced by ploughing in recent years but five are still surveyable.
`A’ is 14.0m in diameter by 0.6 metres in height
`B’ is 12.0m in diameter by 0.3 metres in height
`C’ has been reduced to a mound 16 metres in diameter by 1.1 metres in height. The ditch has been almost completely ploughed out and the apparent `berm’ is probably due to the removal of the edges of the barrow by ploughing.
`D’ is 10 metres in diameter by 0.4 in height.
`E’ is an irregularly shaped mound measuring 23 metres from north to south and 12 metres from east to west by 0.3 metres in height.
`F’ – `J’ have now been almost completely ploughed out but are visible as slight mounds of flint.

Five barrows extant as follows:
A. SU 7340 1498. Diameter 12 metres Height 0.6 metres
B. SU 7340 1496. Diameter 10 metres by 14 metres. Height 0.3 metres.
C. SU 7341 1493. Diameter 16 metres. Height 1.1 metres
D. SU 73451488. Diameter 7.5 metres. Height 0.4 metres
E. SU 73381487. 22.0m. by 14 metres. Height 0.3 metres

A group of round barrows on the highest part of Charlton Down. They are presumably Bronze Age but the possibility of Saxon activity cannot be ruled out in view of the proximity of Chalton Down Saxon village (SU 73 SW 33).
a. An oval mound, probably twin barrows, ploughed but as high and conspicuous as circa 20 paces, height 2 feet 6 inches
b. Smaller ploughed mound, diameter 15 paces, height 2 feet.
c. Unploughed barrow. Diameter including remnant of ditch 21paces, height 3 feet. (The configuration and dimensions of these three barrows strongly suggest that the NGR, SU 734 150 and map given on the record form are incorrect and that the scheduling should apply to barrows A, B and C of this group).

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(’A’-ST80810856; ‘B’-ST80820852) Within the largest enclosure on Ringmoor are two tumuli. (Plotted from plan. ‘B’ is published as a mound on OS 6” 1902).
‘A’ and ‘B’ are two grass covered mounds situated in the vicinity of an Iron Age/Romano-British settlement, and on an east-facing slope, some 50ft below a ridge.
‘A’ – An elongated, almost triangular mound, approximatley NE-SW on the long axis. It measures 9.0m x 5.0m., with a height of 0.4m. There is a slight trace of a ditch.
‘B’ Roughly circular in plan, with a diameter of 5.5m. The mound is 0.1m high on the NW and 0.4m. high on the SE. It has a small hollow in the centre.
It would seem hazardous to describe these mounds as barrows, for while they could possibly be mutilated bowl barrows, they could be field clearance mounds or in some other way associated with the settlement, and without excavation the classification is uncertain. (2)

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Bowl barrow in Turnworth at ST 8267 0807. Ditch on North side (?) Shape due to differential land usage. Approximately 45x30 feet wide and 8 feet high. (1)

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(ST 98382641) Tumulus (NR). A probable long barrow 75 feet long, 60 feet wide and 4 feet high, orientated NNE/SSW. It is on arable and the suggestion of side-ditches seen on the ground by Grinsell in 1937 was confirmed by him from an air photograph of the site after ploughing. (2) ST 98382640: This probable long barrow survives as an oval mound 22m long, NE-SW by 14m tranversely with excavation depressions at its centre and NE end. No trace of a ditch survives. Published survey 25” revised. (3)