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Monument Number 219803

Hob Uid: 219803
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne Stoke, Berwick St. James
Grid Ref : SU1040340712
Summary : Linear ditch and bank, part of a system of linear earthworks in the Wilsford Down-Winterbourne Stoke area (see associated monument records) and presumed to be of later Bronze Age date. The feature survives as earthworks for much of its length but part of its course has been ploughed out and is visible only as a cropmark.
More information : (SU 10004132 - SU 10804011) Ditch (AT) (Twice). (1)

Extends from W N W of Longbarrow crossroads to the Lake Group and beyond, SU094416 - SU 110400. No dating evidence. (2)

The ditch extends from SU 10034129 to SU 10584044 with a maximum depth of 1.0m and from there to SU10664023 as a cropmark. A further extant portion to SU 10784112 is in very good condition though still only 1.0m deep.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)

This earthwork has been identified as the main boundary earthwork of a possible Bronze Age boundary complex which extended for over 4km, from west of the Longbarrow Cross Roads (SU 096415) to Rox Hill (SU 120386), with extensions northeast beyond Normanton Gorse (SU 114417). This linear earthwork extends from SU 096415 to Rox Hill (SU 120386- see SU 13 NW 18) and has been interpreted as a component of the nearby Bronze Age settlement (SU 04 SE 60). A subsidary earthwork extending from this earthwork at SU 10404078 to SU 09404112 has been identified from APs. (4)

The linear feature is visible as an earthwork and a cropmark on aerial photographs. It is 1467m long, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (6-7)

This is the linear labelled 'a-a' by the RCHM (Authority 4, fig 14). Investigated as part of the EH Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project; it survives as an earthwork spread to 9.5m wide and only 0.2m high near the Lake Barrows; at The Diamond the bank is 6m wide and 0.5m high and the ditch is 5m wide and 1m deep with a slight counterscarp bank. (8)
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Source details : OS 6" 1961
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Source details : Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer
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Source details : F1 MJF 21-JAN-71
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Source details : USAAF US/7PH/GP/LOC122 1013-4 24-DEC-1943
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Source details : NMR OS/70067 144-5 03-MAY-1970
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Source details : M Bowden, D Field and S Soutar 2012 Lake Barrows, The Diamond and Normanton Gorse
Page(s) : 17-19
Figs. : 2, 3, 11
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Vol(s) : 29-2012
Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Linear Earthwork
Evidence : Earthwork, Cropmark
Monument Period Name : Later Prehistoric
Display Date : Later Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Linear Earthwork
Evidence : Earthwork, Cropmark
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Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 10489
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW968
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 129
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1971-01-21
End Date : 1971-01-21
Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1982-01-01
End Date : 1982-12-31
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Activity type : GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY
Start Date : 1982-01-01
End Date : 1982-12-31
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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1994-12-01
End Date : 1995-08-01
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Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2001-02-01
End Date : 2001-07-01
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Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2008-01-01
End Date : 2013-12-31