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MONUMENT NO. 219687

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Bronze Age oval twin disc barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 10, located on Stonehenge Down to the south west of Stonehenge. Excavation by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century recovered a primary cremation from one of the mounds, though it is not clear which. Geophysical survey in 1993-4 recorded a slightly oval surrounding ditch. The earthworks have suffered some damage. A central mound measuring 16 metres by 12 metres, and up to 0.5 metres high, can no longer be clearly identified as two distinct barrow mounds. The surrounding bank and ditch measures 43 to 45 metres in overall diameter.

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(SU 12014198) Tumulus (AT). (1)

Amesbury 10. An oval twin disc barrow measuring 144 ft
E-W and 120 ft N-S. (2) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 15) found a primary cremation in one of the tumps. (Not stated which). (3)

A roughly circular disc barrow 43.5m E-W and 45.0m N-S, the bank
0.2m high, the ditch up to 0.5m deep. The central tump measures
16 x 12 metres x 0.5m max height; it may represent two mounds though
they cannot now be readily identified.

Published survey (1:2500) revised. (4)

Originally recorded as Amesbury 10 by Goddard. (5)

The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8-9)

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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)222

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ANK 04-JAN-71

(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)165

(3) by Sir Richard Colt Hoare; introduction by Jack Simmons and D D A Simpson 1975 The ancient history of Wiltshire

Page(s)127

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

Record number 669 Page(s)225

(7) Rosamund M J Cleal, K E Walker and R Montague ... [et al] 1995 Stonehenge in its landscape : twentieth-century excavations

English Heritage archaeological reports [new series]1 (1994) - 10 Page(s)495-8

(8) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

USAAF US/7PH/GP/LOC122 1021-3 24-DEC-1943

(9) Oblique aerial photograph reference number

NMR SU 1242/365-6 (15573/16-17) 22-AUG-1996

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