Winterbourne Stoke 10 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 870444 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Amesbury, Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU1032841918 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bell barrow, known as Winterbourne Stoke 10, survives as earthworks at the north-eastern end of the main alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 35m and comprises a roughly circular mound, 1.5m high, which sits north of 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 27: 1812), who located a primary burial deposit comprising two inhumations with a Beaker. In addition there were six secondary inhumations and one cremation beneath an inverted urn. The barrow was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 10 by Goddard (1913) and as a bowl barrow 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 February 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `K' SU 10324192; Winterbourne Stoke 10, a bowl barrow 90ft in diameter and 5ft high. Colt Hoare's excavations (Barrow 27) located a primary inhumation of two skeletons with a type A beaker, six secondary inhumations and a secondary cremation beneath an inverted urn in a ledge cut into the barrow above the topmost secondary skeleton. (1-2)
SU 10324191 Winterbourne Stoke 10, a ditched bowl barrow 33m in overall diameter, 1.2m high. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 10 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. (7-10)
The Bronze Age bell barrow referred to above (1-10) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1: 1000 in February 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. Although listed as a bowl barrow by Grinsell (1957) the earthworks clearly take a bell barrow form. The barrow has an overall diameter of 35m and comprises a roughly circular mound, 1.5m high, which sits north of centre on a platform that is defined by a ring ditch. The summit of the mound is 13m and the base 18m in diameter: the mound has slumped across the berm to the north-west, into the ditch. The berm is a maximum of 3.5m wide and forms a platform 22m in diameter. The surrounding ditch measures between 3m and 5m wide: it is 0.1m deep in the south-west and 0.5m deep in the north-east. (11-12) |