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Ratfyn Barrow
Hob Uid: 219298
Location : Wiltshire Amesbury
Grid Ref : SU1583641944
Summary : A bell barrow with a mound 19m in diameter and 3m high. Traces of a shallow ditch 3m wide are visible which, in being separated from the mound by a sloping berm, suggest that the monument may be best interpreted as a bell barrow. Scheduled.
More information : (SU 15834194) Ratfyn Barrow (NR). (1) Grinsell's 57. Bowl barrow, diameter 24 paces, height 8ft. (2) A bowl barrow with no visible ditch. Its measurements accord with those given by Grinsell and the barrow is in good condition though a depression down the south side suggests that some attempt at excavation has been made. Surveyed at 1:2500. Variations of the name "Ratfyn" have been applied to the area sice the 12th c. (3-4) SU 15834194. Ratfyn barrow, Grinsell 57. A dog digging on the surface disturbed the long bones of an adult inhumation.(5) The skeletal remains have been transferred to Devizes Museum. Acc no. 50.1973. (6) Barrow originally recorded as Amesbury 57 by Goddard. (7) The barrow has been mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS mapping Project. The barrow is visible as a slight mound, although most photographs show the mound covered by trees. (10-11)

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Source details : RAF CPE/UK/2006 3210-11 16-APR-1947
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Source details : Council for British Archaeology GP 12 AR4 1969 (C Moore)
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Source details : NMR SU 1541/1 (CCC 8603/1688) 07-NOV-1923
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bell Barrow, Inhumation
Evidence : Earthwork, Find

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SE684
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 684
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 145
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 28931
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SE 94
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Activity type : EXCAVATION
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1969-06-17
End Date : 1969-06-17

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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1994-12-01
End Date : 1995-08-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2001-02-01
End Date : 2001-07-01

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Ratfyn Barrow