| Summary : Two confluent Bronze Age bowl barrows, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 46, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Cunnington excavated the south-eastern of the two in the early 19th century, finding a primary cremation plus a bronze awl, three segmented faience beads, two amber beads and a stone bead (although two stone beads survive in Devizes Museum). The north-western barrow had been opened previously. The barrows survive as an earthwork mound 1.2m high which, possibly as a result of the excavations, has the appearance of an oval barrow rather than confluent bowl barrows. A linear earthwork overlies the ditch of this barrow on the south side. |
More information : `K' - SU 11054028; Wilsford 46. Two confluent bowl barrows; 120ft x 72ft x 4ft high. Wessex Grave 88. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrows 14 and 15) found that the smaller had been opened prior to Colt Hoare, the larger one contained a cremation with an awl and amber and fience beads. (DM 351-3). (2-3)
Wilsford 46, though conclusively identified as confluent bowl barrows the existing 1m high mound has, presumably as a result of the excavations, the appearance of a "short" long barrow. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 46 by Goddard. (5) Additonal reference. (6)
The confluent barrows fall within the area mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. They have been included on the survey maps, but are covered by trees, and no further information could be added from aerial photographic evidence. (7)
This monument now consists of an oval mound up to 1.2m high, with a surrounding ditch at its NW end, the SE end being obscured by modern debris. The bank of a substantial linear ditch overlies the ditch of this barrow on the S side, though it apparently ends short of the barrow ditch on the N side. The mound seems to extend further to the NW than shown by RCHM 1979 (8A), possibly pushing the linear ditch out of its course. (8)
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