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MONUMENT NO. 218294

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A triple bell barrow. It is an unusual form of round barrow, originally constructed as three contiguous mounds, aligned east west, surrounded by a ditch. The most easterly part is either a flint cairn or a flint capped earthern mound. Fragments of skull and other human bone have been found in ploughsoil. The barrow has been ploughed virtually level and has been recorded on aerial photographs as an earthwork and as a cropmark.

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(Centred SU 14843943) Tumuli (NR). (1)

On Amesbury Down - Amesbury 91; a triple bell-barrow with an
oval surrounding ditch and outer bank. The overall dimensions
are 189 ft from W to E and 140 ft from N to S. The western
mound is 27 ft x 1 1/2 ft, centre mound 39 ft x 3 ft, and the
eastern mound 48 ft x 1 1/2 ft. The berm is 15 ft wide, the
ditch and bank both being 15 ft x 1 ft in width, depth and
height respectively. (2)

An oval barrow; ploughed and now comprising an oval ditch with
vestiges of an outer bank surrounding a long, slightly waisted
mound. The three mounds cannot be identified on the ground
though there are two, that to the east being either a cairn or
an earthen mound capped with flints. Three mounds can clearly
be seen on APs. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)

Fragments of skull and other human bone were found in plough soil. (5)

The barrow has been ploughed virtually level and has been recorded as an earthwork and as a cropmark and has been mapped from aerial photographs.
(6-11)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1961

( 2) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1

The Victoria history of the counties of England 1, 1957 Page(s)215

( 3a) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

NMR OS/70130 0404 24-MAY-1970

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 18-APR-72

(4) Scheduled Monument Notification

English Heritage Schedule Entry 30/08/1996

(5) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

68, 1973 Page(s)128

(6) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

FSL/71230 230025 11-NOV-1971

(7) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

NMR OS/70067 0084-5 03-MAY-1970

(8) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SU1439/2 (ACA 7082/39) date unknown

(9) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SU1439/10-11 (881/163-4,175-6) 27-JUL-1975

(10) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SU1439/7 (811/270-1) 17-MAR-1975

(11) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SU1439/14 (929/469-470) 12-MAY-1976

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