| Summary : A Bronze Age disc barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 45a, and part of the Lake Group of barrows, recorded as SU 14 SW 51. It was not excavated by Cunnington, though Colt Hoare noted that it had already been opened. The barrow is extant as an earthwork circa 55 metres in diameter overall. The ditch and outer bank are are 0.3m high and 0.3m deep respectively, but the central mound is not extant. The outer bank is overlain by that of the adjacent disc barrow Wilsford 45b (SU 14 SW 478); it is also truncated by the plantation fence and plough-levelled beyond it. |
More information : `R' - SU 11004037, Wilsford 45a a disc barrow with an overall diameter of about 180ft. in thick vegetation. the outer bank of this barrow joins disc barrow Wilsford 45b (SU 14 SW 478). (1) Colt Hoare's Barrow 11, had been opened previously to him, no record. (2)
Wilsford 45a, a disc barrow; 0.2m high outer bank. 0.4m deep ditch with no trace of a central tump. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 45a by Goddard. (4) Additional reference. (5)
Part of the perimeter ditch of the barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, the rest is covered by trees. The barrow been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (6)
One of a pair of disc barrows marking the N edge of the group; the bank survives 0.3m high and the ditch up to 0.3m deep but no central mound was seen, though Grinsell recorded one in the 1950s (see Authority 1). The bank of this barrow is overlain by, and is therefore earlier than, the bank of adjacent barrow Wilsford 45b; it is also truncated by the plantation fence and plough-levelled beyond it. (7)
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