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MONUMENT NO. 219624

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Probable Bronze Age round barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 24 and located within Vespasian's Camp (SU 14 SW 69). Excavation in 1770, which recovered a cremation, a large grooved dagger and a bronze pin, probably occurred during the course of landscaping. The present feature, tentatively identified as the barrow site, is a level platform located at a point where the series of walks and rides within the hillfort coverge.

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(SU 14624166) Tumulus (AT). (1)

Amesbury 24. A (?) bowl barrow, no dimensions given.
It was opened in 1770-71 and ashes (?cremation), a large grooved
dagger and a ring-headed bronze pin were found.

It is uncertain whether this is a barrow, an enclosure (Amesbury
19a in Grinsell's list of enclosures and hill forts), or an
enclosure surrounding a barrow.

(Grinsell has not seen the site). (2)

The feature shown on OS 25" is a circular platform about 50m in
diameter and up to 0.8m high. A map of 1726 shows a series of
strip fields covering the area and it seems possible that the
finds of 1770-71 were first unearthed by ploughing, and that the
barrow would be much denuded and possibly destroyed. This would
support the present appearance which is that of a possibly
18th-19th century ornamental feature though in all probability
constructed on the site of the barrow. (3)

Amesbury 24 is one of two barrows present within Vespasian's Camp (SU 14 SW 69) and was opened in 1770 during the course of landscaping for Amesbury Park (SU 14 SW 261). The finds recovered have been described by Goddard, who also originally recorded the barrow as Amesbury 24. (4). This barrow is no longer visible but there are suggestions that it was situated at SU 14614167 which lies within a circular level platform c. 50m in diameter and is where the series of walks and rides within the hillfort converge. This suggests that this is the product of mid-eighteenth century landscaping. (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, 262

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 22-JUL-69

( 4) 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

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

Page(s)22

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

Record number 952 Page(s)321

( 7) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment

English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project

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