More information : (A: SU 0001 2206 and B: 0003 2205) Tumuli (NR). (1)
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)
A group of four adjoining bowl barrows.
(SU 0000 2205) BC 1: 20.0m overall diameter, with a mound 0.4m
high above a 0.2m deep ditch.
(SU 0001 2205) BC2: 15.0m overall diameter and 0.3m high. A
shallow ditch on the N and S sides.
(SU 0002 2205) BC 3: Comprises a mound 12.0m diameter and
0.3m high, with a shallow ditch on the S side.
(SU 0004 2205) BC 4: Comprising a mound 12.0m diameter and
0.3m high with a shallow ditch on the S side. The E side of the
barrow has been mutilated by a trackway associated with the
adjoining celtic field system (SU 02 SW 1). (5)
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