Winterbourne Stoke 13 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 870447 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Winterbourne Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU1016241782 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow survives as earthworks near the north-eastern end of the secondary alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 37m and comprises a circular mound 2m high which is surrounded by a ring ditch. The summit of the mound is 3m and the base measures 26m in diameter. Breaks in slope suggest the mound was constructed in perhaps three phases, although the mound has also been damaged by burrowing rabbits. The ditch measures circa 5m wide and 0.4m deep and there is a fragment of an outer bank to the NNW. It appears to be overlain by Winterbourne Stoke 14 (Monument Number 870450) to the west. The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (Barrow 19: 1812), who found a primary inhumation, plus a secondary inhumation and a cremation beneath an inverted Enlarged Food Vessel. A perforated cushion macehead of greenstone was also found (the macehead and Food Vessel are in Devizes Museum). The round barrow was listed Winterbourne Stoke 13 by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). It was mapped from aerial photographs at a scale of 1:10,000 as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project and this mapping revised at a scale of 1:2500 for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. It was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `M' - SU 10164177; Winterbourne Stoke 13, a ditched bowl barrow 90ft in diameter and 6ft high. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 19) found a primary skeleton, and a secondary inhumation and a cremation under an inverted urn of a MBA enlarged food vessel type. Within the mound a perforated cushion macehead was located. (1-2)
SU 10164178 A ditched bowl barrow 38m in diameter and 1.8m high. There is a change in profile of the mound suggestive of a bell barrow. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 13 by Goddard. (4)
The CBA Implement Petrology Committee lists this macehead, it is of greenstone (Wilts no. 62) and is in Devizes Museum. (5)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8-11)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow referred to above (1-10) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has an overall diameter of 37m and comprises a circular mound 2m high which is surrounded by a ring ditch. The summit of the mound is 3m and the base measures 26m in diameter. Breaks in slope suggest the mound was constructed in perhaps three phases, although the mound has also been damaged by burrowing rabbits. The upper part could possibly be contemporary with the second phase of interments noted by Hoare less that 3 feet beneath its surfaceThe ditch measures circa 5m wide and 0.4m deep and there is a fragment of an outer bank to the NNW. It appears to be overlain by Winterbourne Stoke 14 (Monument Number 870450) to the west. (12-13) |