Wilsford 76A (Grinsell) |
| Hob Uid: 1119623 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake
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| Grid Ref : SU1184539324 |
| 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 76A 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 18.5m and comprises a shallow flat-bottomed depression with fragmentary remnants of a shallow external bank. The depression is just 0.2m deep and measures 10.8m in diameter across the top and 5m at the bottom. Remnants of the bank, except to the north of the mound, survive to a maximum height of 0.1m. The monument has probably been damaged by ploughing. |
More information : Bronze Age pond barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 76a and part of the Lake Down barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 48. Excavated by Duke without result. The barrow is extant as an earthwork. See the parent record (SU 13 NW 48) and the Ordnance Survey record card for details of dimensions. (1-3)
The barrow is reccorded on aerial photographs as a ring bank with an inner ditch. The barrow has an overall diameter of 20.5m and the inner depression is 13m across. It is centred at SU 1185 3932.
The barrow appears to have been denuded by ploughing as a field visit by the OS in 1972 established that the barrow measured 18.5m across. The bank was 0.3m high and the depression was 0.7m 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 has an overall diameter of 18.5m and comprises a shallow flat-bottomed depression with fragmentary remnants of a shallow external bank. The depression is just 0.2m deep and measures 10.8m in diameter across the top and 5m at the bottom. Remnants of the bank, except to the north of the mound, survive to a maximum height of 0.1m. The monument has probably been damaged by ploughing. (10) |