More information : (SU 11354274) Tumuli (AT) (5 shown). (1) Barrow cemetery comprising of five bowl barrows (Amesbury 49-53). (2) Excavations by Colt Hoare found that two of the barrows contained burials, Amesbury 51 (SU 14 SW 422) and Amesbury 52 (SU 14 SW 423) the others were unproductive. (3)
Amesbury 51 (SU 14 SW 422) was re-excavated in 1960 found that the barrow contained a total of four inhumations, and it had a possible mortuary house. Bluestone fragments were recovered from the ditch. (4-6)
Published 1:2500 surveys revised. (7)
The barrow cemetery is visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. Details of each barrow are recorded separately. (8)
The Cursus barrow cemetery extends 1200m east / west along a ridge and measures 250m wide. It comprises the round barrows recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 28 to 30 and Amesbury 43 to 56, plus the Fargo hengiform. The round barrows either side of the Fargo Plantation were surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The barrows to the east were surveyed in April 2009 and the Monarch of the Plain (Amesbury 55) was surveyed in March 2010. The hengiform and round barrows within Fargo Plantation were observed during a rapid field investigation in November 2010. See individual barrow records for details. (9-11) |