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Monument Number 219684

Hob Uid: 219684
Location :
Wiltshire
Amesbury
Grid Ref : SU1200042100
Summary : Bronze Age round barrow cemetery located immediately south west of Stonehenge, on Stonehenge Down. The cemetery comprises six bowl barrows, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 4 to 9. See individual monument records SU 14 SW 396 to 401 for further details. The barrows largely survive as earthworks and some cropmarks are visible on aerial photographs.
More information : (SU 12004210) Tumuli (AT) (Six shown). (1)

Barrow cemetery comprising six bowl barrows, Amesbury 4-9 (SU 14 SW 396-401) (2). All were excavated by Colt Hoare who located burials within three, Amesbury 4 (SU 14 SW 396), Amesbury 6 (SU 14 SW 398) and Amesbury 8 (SU 14 SW 400). Sarsen and blue stone chips were recovered from the mound of Amesbury 4 (SU 14 SW 396). The others were found to be unproductive (3).

Published 1:2500 surveys revised. (4)

The barrows are visible, mainly as a cropmarks, on aerial photographs, and have been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. Each barrow is described separately. (5)

Surviving earthworks surveyed at 1:1000 during EH Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (6)
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Source details : OS 6" 1961
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Source details : L Grinsell: Archaeological Gazetteer
Page(s) : 149-50
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Source details : F1 ANK 06-JAN-71
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Source details : English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : D Field and T Pearson, Stonehenge WHS Landsxcape Project: Stonehenge Down and Triangle
Page(s) : 08-Nov
Figs. : 5
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Vol(s) : 105-2011
Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Barrow Cemetery
Evidence : Earthwork, Cropmark
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW727
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 64B
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW728
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW729
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW730
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW731
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW732
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 88
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