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Monument Number 223276
Hob Uid: 223276
Location : Wiltshire Winterslow
Grid Ref : SU2350035700
Summary : Linear earthwork on Easton Down. Excavations have found the earthwork to comprise a ditch flanked on either side by bank. It is thought to be part of an earthwork system, possibly late Bronze Age in date.
More information : (SU 235357) Ditch (NR). (1) A bivallate ditch on Easton Down, forming part of a complex of ditches (see plan (2)) revealed by fieldwork and air-photographs. Considered by Hawkes (3) to be a system of Late Bronze Age ranch boundaries. (2-4) This ranch boundary complex has been revised from OS APs by AR Gp under my supervision. Because of the nature of the establishment in which it falls no APs were available to the Field Group and all AP plotting has been done post-fieldwork directly onto the astrafoils. No post-plotting AO Fieldwork has been done. (5) JFS Stone sectioned one of the linear earthworks during his investigations of the Easton Down flint mines and associated sites (See SU 23 NW 26). His trench was located at roughly SU 23653575, and demonstrated that the earthwork at this point consisted of a pair of parallel banks with a ditch running between. The ditch was markedly asymmetric in profile. No datable material was recovered. (6) The form of the earthwork and the topographical positioning suggest were considered by Bradley et al (in the context of an analysis of prehistoric land division on Salisbury Plain) to be typical of late Bronze Age linear earthwork systems in the area. (7)

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Source details : OS 6" 1961
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Source details : Celtic Earthworks of Salisbury Plain (Old Sarum) 1937
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Page(s) : 142-49
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Vol(s) : 14, 1938

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Source details : Private 6" (L V Grinsell undated)
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Source details : F1 CFW 12-APR-73
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : Stone JFS
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : R Bradley et al. 1994. Prehistoric Land Divisions on Salisbury Plain; English Heritage Archaeol Report no. 2, p126
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Linear Earthwork, Bank (Earthwork), Ditch, Boundary Bank, Boundary Ditch
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Later Prehistoric
Display Date : Later Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Linear Earthwork, Bank (Earthwork), Ditch, Boundary Bank, Boundary Ditch
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 676
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 23 NW 4
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Relationship type : General association

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Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1933-01-01
End Date : 1934-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-04-12
End Date : 1973-04-12

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 223276