| Summary : A Neolithic long barrow survives as earthworks at the south-western end of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It comprises a long mound, up to 3m high, 83.7m long and 26.9m wide, which extends south-west / north-east and is flanked to either side by ditches. The mound has the appearance of two conjoined round barrows, but this is the result of extensive damage by excavation, animal burrowing and quarrying for chalk in the early 20th century. The long barrow was excavated by Thurnam in 1863, who found a primary inhumation and six secondary burials. The barrow was listed as Winterbourne Stoke Down 1 by Hoare (1812), and as Winterbourne Stoke 1 by Goddard (1913), Cunnington (1914), and Grinsell (1957). The long barrow was mapped from aerial photographs at a scale of 1:10,000 as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping project. The long barrow was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : (SU 10004151) Long Barrow (AT). (1)
Winterbourne Stoke 1. A long barrow orientated NE-SW;
it is 240 ft long, 72 ft wide and 10 ft high. Colt Hoare's barrow 1, excavated by Thurnam who found a primary flexed male skeleton with a bludgeon like flint implement 8 inches long, and six secondary burials, one man, one woman and four chidren, with a plain urn-shaped food vessel 2 ft from the top of the mound. (2-3)
A good example of a long barrow. The ditch is 1.0m deep on the NW
side though it does not continue for the full length of the barrow,
that on the SE has been filled in. The mound has a maximum height
of 2.5m.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
Originally recorded as Winterboure Stoke 1 by Goddard. (5) A Neolithic flint scraper, now in Salisbury Museum (Acc. No. 197(a). 1984) was found `near to the long barrow' at SU 100415. (6)
The long 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. (8-11)
The Neolithic long barrow referred to above (1-11) was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It comprises a long mound, up to 3m high, 83.7m long and 26.9m wide, which extends south-west / north-east and is flanked to either side by ditches. The mound has the appearance of two conjoined round barrows, but this is the result of extensive damage by excavation, animal burrowing and quarrying for chalk in the early 20th century (see Cunnington 1914). The mound may also have been enhanced after initial construction. The north-western ditch is wide and deep, while the south-eastern ditch is shallow and appears to have been filled in and disturbed by later activity. The straight outer edge of the barrow's north-west ditch could be related to the fence depicted on the OS 1st ed 25" map, which seems to surround the ditch. (12-13) |