More information : Grinsells 65 b: SU 15144348: 8 paces diameter; levelled. Excavated by A Booth 1951: primary crouched adult female with debased type B beaker; in ditch 3 horn cores of Bos longifrons and a pigmy cup (1). (This pigmy cup is not mentioned in excavation report or elsewhere and is probably an error).
(SU 15124345) A pipe trench cut in 1950/51, 20ft from the roadside exposed the ditch of a barrow circle 60ft from the bank of Durrington Walls and 93ft from the Fargo Road junction. The diameter of the circle was 37ft and the ditch contained occupation refuse presumably derived from the surrounding soil; animal bones including three horn cores, a scraper, pieces of sandstone rubbers, Secondary Neolithic sherds etc. The central contracted inhumation had been partly cut away by the trench but remains were in place with a very large unornamented 'B' type beaker. (1-2)
The site cannot be identified on the ground and the NG reference is deduced from the measurements given in the report. (3)
This area was mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHGS Mapping Project, but this barrow was not recorded by either survey. (6) |