Winterbourne Stoke 6 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 870405 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU1021341768 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl 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 24.5m and comprises a roughly circular mound which is completely surrounded by a ring ditch. The mound stands 1.7m high and has been severely damaged by animals burrowing around its south-eastern quadrant, creating or enlarging a ledge. Its summit measures 6m long by 4m wide and its base is 16m in diameter. The ditch measures between 1.5m and 2m wide and is 0.1m deep. The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who found a primary inhumation covered by a cairn of flints, laid on the original ground surface which had been stripped of turf (Barrow 22: 1812). The barrow was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 6 by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). It 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. The round barrow was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `E' - SU 10214177; Winterbourne Stoke 6, a ditched bowl barrow 51ft in diameter, 6ft high. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 22) located a primary inhumation covered by a cairn of flints on the floor which had been cleared of turf. (1-2)
A ditched bowl barrow 20m in diameter, 1.7m high the ditch has been destroyed on the south east side. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 6 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 bowl barrow referred to above (1-9) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage¿s Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has an overall diameter of 24.5m and comprises a roughly circular mound which is completely surrounded by a ring ditch. The mound stands 1.7m high and has been severely damaged by animals burrowing around its south-eastern quadrant, creating or enlarging a ledge. Its summit measures 6m long by 4m wide and its base is 16m in diameter. The ditch measures between 1.5m and 2m wide and is 0.1m deep. (10-11) |