| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 40, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who found a primary interment of a child in a large deep grave, accompanied by a "drinking cup", presumably a Beaker. Two secondary inhumations were also found. Near the top of the mound was a cremation with bone pin beneath an inverted urn. The bone pin is in Devizes Museum; the urn is said to be lost. The museum also contains an "incense cup" said to have been dug out of the side of this barrow. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound about 4.6 metres high, surrounded by a ditch. |
More information : `D' - SU 10814020; Wilsford 40 a ditched bowl barrow 105ft in diameter and 10ft high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 6) revealed a primary interment of a child, with a `drinking cup', in a larger deep grave, secondary interments of two skeletons, probably Early Bronze Age, and 1ft below the top of the barrow, a cremation and a bone pin beneath an inverted urn. (DM 309 and 161) (2-3)
Wilsford 40, a good example of a ditched bowl barrow; mound 4m high, ditch 0.5m deep. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 40 by Goddard. (5)
The barrow falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. It has been included on the survey maps, but is covered by trees, and no further information could be added from aerial photographic evidence. (7)
An extremely large bowl barrow lies close alongside long barrow Wilsford 41 and seems to have a similar 'mass', echoing its proportions; the surrounding ditch is up to 6m wide and the mound is approximately 4.6m high. (8)
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