More information : `L' - SU 11984129; Wilsford 12, a ditched bowl barrow 42ft in diameter and 2.5m high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 148) proved unproductive. (2)
Wilsford 12, a bowl barrow 0.4m high with a shallow ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 12 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. (6-7)
The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-7) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in April 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The site has been recorded as part of the Normanton Down (Centre) barrow group (Monument Number 219537) and forms part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 1531088). The surviving earthworks have an overall diameter of 21m and suggest a bell form. They comprise an oval mound which sits on a platform, with fragments of a shallow ditch to the south-west. The mound stands 0.45m high: its top measures 6.5m long, north to south, by 5.5m wide and its base is 11m in diameter. The platform is circa 14m in diameter and the ditch measures 4.5m wide. (8) |