| Summary : A bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell and others as Ogbourne St Andrew 7. It was dug into in 1879 by AC Smith and H Cunnington. They found a small pit roughly in the centre beneath the mound, containing a cremation beneath an inverted collared urn. Secondary interments were also present, including a further cremation about 1 foot below the surface of the mound, covered by a layer of small sarsens, and a "disturbed" inhumation, again close to the surface of the barrow, with a leaf arrowhead nearby. It is unclear if the skeleton and arrowhead were directly associated. The collared urn within the primary burial deposit makes it unlikely that this inhumation was of Neolithic date. In 1974, the Ordnance Survey recorded the barrow as a mound 20 metres in diameter and up to 1 metre high. All traces of the surrounding ditch had been removed by ploughing. [NB the other 2 barrows previously described here have now been recorded separately. See associated monument records for further details]. |
More information : (SU 16317299 & SU 16387305) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Two bowl barrows listed by Grinsell. SU 16317299, diam 24 paces;
height 3 ft. Has slight ditch. Excavated by Smith and
Cunnington in 1879. Primary (?) cremation beneath inverted MBA
collared urn, with flint knife. Secondary interments included a
cremation and apparently a skeleton, with a leaf arrowhead near
it. Urn in Devizes Museum (4). SU 16377304, diam 19 paces, height
4 ft, has slight ditch. (2-4)
Saucer barrow not shown by Auth 1, but listed by Grinsell. (5)
SU 16357307, mound dia 38 ft height 1 ft, ditch width 8 ft
depth 1/2 ft; outer bank width 10 ft, height 1/2 ft.
Excavated by Smith and Cunnington in 1879. Primary cremation
in circular cist; fragments of a small 'drinking-cup' 6 ft N of
centre. (Grinsell queries whether in soil before erection of
barrow). Now in Devizes Museum (4). (6-7)
SU 16317299. A bowl barrow 20.0 metres in diameter and 1.0 metre
high; the ditch has been ploughed out.
SU 16387304. A bowl barrow 16.0 metres in diameter and 1.0
metre high, now with no trace of a ditch.
SU 16357305. Vestiges of a mound 0.2 metres high are all that
survives of the 'saucer barrow'. Under crop.
Published 25" survey revised. (8)
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