| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 50a, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by the Reverend E Duke, who apparently found a cremation with bronze dagger. However, there is some confusion over various numbering schemes concerning Duke's excavations. The barrow has been levelled by ploughing, but the ditch is visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark about 37 metres in diameter. |
More information : `P' - SU 11054011; Wilsford 50a, a bowl barrow 90ft in diameter and 1ft high. Grinsell has correlated this barrow Colt Hoare's barrow 18. (1)
Wilsford 50a, nothing of this barrow can be seen on the ground but it is clearly visible on recent APs as a dark soil mark about 37m in diameter centred at 11064010. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (2-3)
There is confusion over the correlation of this barrow to Colt Hoare's and Duke's barrow numbers. Grinsell (1) has allocated it to Colt Hoare's barrow 18, which was excavated by Rev. E Duke in 1805 (Duke's barrow 20), Goddard to Colt Hoare's 20 which may have been opened by Duke (4). Grinsell also states that this barrow may have contained a primary cremation with a necklace of amber beads, pendants, four gold discs, an incense cup, a bronze awl and possibly faience beads. These finds have also been listed in the Devizes Museum catalogue and stated as coming from either barrow Wilsford 47 (SU 14 SW 470), Wilsford 49 (SU 14 SW 472) or Wilsford 50 (SU 14 SW 473) not this barrow as stated by Grinsell. (5) Additional reference. (6)
The perimeter ditch of the barrow about 37m in diameter, and is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (7-8)
There is now no sign of this barrow on the surface. (9)
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