| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Avebury 64a. Excavated by Merewether in 1849, who described the mound as being set within a circle of stones. Within the barrow he found quantities of pottery, charcoal and animal bones. The mound is now somewhat denuded, and while several stones remain, only two are upright. |
More information : (SU 11427127) Tumulus (NR). (1)
SU 11437127. Bowl barrow, diameter 12 paces, height 1'. Appears
to have had a sarsen peristalith, of which 7 stones were still
extant in 1950. Merewether says that the barrow was within a
circle of stones (8 existing and holes from which 4 others had
been removed) of about 9ft diameter. The barrow contained much
rude pottery, charcoal, animal bones and teeth of deer, oxen
and swine. (2-3)
SU 11427127. This denuded round barrow is 13m in diam and
averages 0.5m high. Nine stones remain but only two are set on
edge and these are 0.8m high.
Published 25" survey revised. (4)
The barrow mound was mapped at 1:10,000 from APs by the Fyfield Down and Overton Down Mapping Project. No additional information was recorded. (5, 7)
Listed as Avebury 64a by Grinsell (2), the barrow had earlier been recorded by Goddard as Winterbourne Monkton 17d, although Goddard was actually unsure as to which parish the monument was in. (6) |