Wilsford 77 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 1119544 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake
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| Grid Ref : SU1178339278 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age pond barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the Lake Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 218330). It is probably one of the round barrows excavated by Mr Edward Duke of Lake House in the early 19th century (Number 12, 13 or 14). The round barrow was listed as Wilsford 77 by Goddard and subsequently by Grinsell. It was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has an overall diameter of 27m and comprises a bank, 0.2m high, which defines a sub-circular ring around a central depression 0.8m deep and circa 8.7m in diameter. The flat top of the bank measures a maximum of 2m wide and its base is up to 10m wide. The southern side of the bank appears to overlie the low bank of Wilsford 77a (Monument Number 1119550), which must therefore be earlier. Wilsford 77 is the largest of the pond barrows in the group. |
More information : Bronze Age pond barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 77 and part of the Lake Down barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 48. Excavated by Duke, it was either unproductive or produced a possible primary cremation (there is some confusion between this pond barrow and Wilsford 78 (SU 13 NW 129). See the parent record (SU 13 NW 48) and the Ordnance Survey record card for details of dimensions. (1-3)
The barrow is visible on aerial photographs as a ring bank with a diameter of 25m. The central depression has a diameter of 17m. It is centred at SU 1178 3928.
A field visit in 1972 found the bank to be 0.4m high and the central depression 1.2m deep (see SU 13 NW 48 for details). The excavation and geophysical survey records for the barrow cemetery are listed in SU 13 NW 48. (4-9)
The Bronze Age pond barrow referred to above (1-9) was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It was originally listed as Wilsford 77 by Goddard in 1913. The round barrow has an overall diameter of 27m and comprises a bank, 0.2m high, which defines a sub-circular ring around a central depression 0.8m deep and circa 8.7m in diameter. The flat top of the bank measures a maximum of 2m wide. The southern side of the bank appears to overlie the low bank of Wilsford 77a (Monument Number 1119550), which must therefore be earlier. Wilsford 77 is the largest of the pond barrows in the group. (10-11) |