More information : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 75a and part of the Lake Down barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 48. It is possibly one of those excavated by Duke, who seems to have found a cremation 3 feet south west of the centre. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound. See the parent record (SU 13 NW 48) and original Ordnance Survey record card for details of dimensions. (1-3)
The Bronze Age round barrow, described above, is visible on aerial photographs as a mound with a diameter of 10m. It is centred at SU 1176 3935.
A field visit by the OS in 1972 found the mound to be 0.7m high, (see SU 13 NW 48 for details). The excavation index records for the barrow cemetery are listed in SU 13 NW 48. (4-9)
The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-9) survives as earthworks which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The barrow comprises a sub-circular mound which stands 0.9m high; the top of the mound is 5m in diameter and the base is circa 9.2m. In profile it is a very shallow bowl, with fairly straight sides and a broad flat summit. The southern side of the mound is notably straight, where it appears to be cut by the ditch of Wilsford 75 (Monument Number 1119507), suggesting that Wilsford 75a is earlier. (10) |