Winterbourne Stoke 9 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 870427 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU1029841875 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bell barrow survives as earthworks within the main alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 40m and comprises a circular mound, 1.6m high, which sits slightly off-centre on a platform that is defined by a ring ditch. The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare (Barrow 26: 1812), who found a primary inhumation in a boat-shaped wooden coffin, with shale and amber beads, a bronze knife dagger, a bronze awl and a small pottery vessel, which is the only find to survive (Devizes Museum). It was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 9 by Goddard (1913), who described it as a bowl barrow, and was listed as such by Grinsell (1957). The round barrow 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 Februaru 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `J' - SU 10304187; Winterbourne Stoke 9, a bowl barrow 96ft by 9 1/2 ft high when seen by Hoare, but only 90ft by 6ft high when seen by Grinsell. Colt Hoare (barrow 26) found a primary burial in a boat-shaped wooden coffin with a necklace of shale and amber beads, a bronze awl and a small vessel. (1-2)
SU 10294187 A bell barrow with an overall diameter of 40m and height of 1.7m. The berm is only slightly higher than the outside ground level (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 9 by Goddard. (4)
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. (6-9)
The Bronze Age bell barrow referred to above (1-9) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1 to 1000 in February 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. Although described as a bowl barrow by Goddard (1913) and Grinsell (1957) the earthworks are clearly of a bell barrow form. The barrow has an overall diameter of 40m and comprises a circular mound, 1.6m high, which sits slightly off-centre on a platform that is defined by a ring ditch. The mound has slumped slightly to the south-east. Its summit is 13m across and its base circa 21m in diameter. The berm is circa 3m wide and forms a platform 26m in diameter. The ditch measures 7m wide: its depth varies between 0.3m in the south-west to 0.8m in the north-east. It is fairly flat bottomed with steep, fairly straight sides. (10-11)
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