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MONUMENT NO. 219621

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Bronze Age bowl barrow situated within Vespasian's Camp (SU 14 SW 69), and listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 25. It was excavated in 1770, probably during the course of landscaping within the hillfort's interior. The only known find is a bronze dagger. The barrow remains extant as a much damaged mound.

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(SU 14614174) Tumulus (AT). (1)

Amesbury 25. A bowl barrow 96ft in diameter and 4ft
high. It is bisected by a driveway. When opened in 1770-71 it
produced a small bronze dagger. (2)

Only two chords of the barrow, one either side of the drive,
remain; they have a maximum height of 0.7m.

Published survey (1:2500) revised. (3)

This barrow is one of two barrows situated within the interior of Vespansian's Camp (SU 14 SW 69) and was opened in 1770, probably during the course of landscaping within the hillfort's interior (4). The barrow now survives on either side of the central north-south ride. The dagger recovered from this barrow has been described by Goddard, he also originally recorded the barrow as Amesbury 25. (5)

The barrow falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. It has been included on the survey maps, but is covered by trees, and no further information could be added from aerial photographic evidence. (7)

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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 LV Grinsell: Archaeological Gazetteer Page(s)150

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 08-JUL-69

( 4) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1979 Stonehenge and its environs: monuments and land use

Page(s)22

( 5) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

EH Goddard: A list of prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiquities in the county of Wiltshire... 38, 1913-14 Page(s)115, 167

( 6) by Frances Blore, et al. 1995 Archaeological assessment of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site and its surrounding landscape

Record number 951 Page(s)320

( 7) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment

English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project

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