Wilsford 79 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 1119620 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake
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| Grid Ref : SU1185439259 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl 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. The round barrow was listed as Wilsford 79 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 comprises a mound, 0.7m high, with very slight indications of a surrounding bank. The top of the mound is off centre and slopes to the east: it measures a maximum of 13.3m in diameter and the base of the mound is 19m. A shallow scarp, 0.15m high and facing away from the mound, is situated to its south-west and a smaller mound, just 0.1m high and located to its north-east, combine to suggest an outer bank, presumably damaged by ploughing. |
More information : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 79 and part of the Lake Down barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 48. The barrow is extant as an earthwork. See parent record SU 13 NW 48 and the Ordnance Survey record card for details of dimensions. (1-2)
The barrow is visible on aerial photographs as an earthwork mound with a diameter of 16m. It is centred at SU 1185 3926.
A field visit by the OS in 1972 found the barrow to have been flattened and that the mound was 0.9m high and measured 20m across (see SU 13 NW 48 for details). The excavation and geophysical survey records for the barrow cemetery are listed in SU 13 NW 48. (3-8)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow referred to above (1-8) was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It comprises a mound, 0.7m high, with very slight indications of a surrounding bank. The top of the mound is off centre and slopes to the east: it measures a maximum of 13.3m in diameter and the base of the mound is 19m. A shallow scarp, 0.15m high and facing away from the mound, is situated to its south-west and a smaller mound, just 0.1m high and located to its north-east, combine to suggest an outer bank, presumably damaged by ploughing. The round barrow was originally listed as Wilsford 79 by Goddard in 1913. (9-10) |