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Wilsford 60
Hob Uid: 1110539
Location : Wiltshire Wilsford cum Lake
Grid Ref : SU1177039790
Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 60 and part of the barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 1. Excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who found a primary inhumation, plus a secondary cremation with two whetstones (one perforated), a flint knife, a flint point, a bronze dagger, a bone macehead and a polished bone plaque. Note however that there is some confusion over the attribution of some of these finds to this barrow. All the objects are in Devizes Museum. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound 1.8 metres in height and 29 metres in diameter; there is now no trace of a surrounding ditch but the monument is heavily overgrown.
More information : Principle sources. (1-5) Wilsford 60: a substantial bowl barrow, up to 1.8m high; there is now no sign of the surrounding ditch seen by previous investigators (6, 7) but the barrow is heavily overgrown; surveyed at 1:1000. (8)

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Source details : Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer
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Source details : Annable, FK & DDA Simpson. 1964. Guide Catalogue to the Neolithic and Bronze Age collections in Devizes Museum, p50 nos 267-73
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Source details : AN King, OS Field Investigator, 1st May 1972
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : LV Grinsell 1978 Stonehenge Barrow Groups, Salisbury Museum, 42
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : MCB Bowden 2010 Wilsford Barrows: Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project, EH
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation
Evidence : Earthwork, Sub Surface Deposit

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation
Object Type : WHETSTONE, KNIFE, POINT, MACE, DAGGER, CREMATION
Object Material : Stone, Flint, Bone, Bronze

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 060
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU13NW613
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 13 NW 100
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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2008-01-01
End Date : 2013-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Wilsford 60