More information : On Easton Down - Winterslow 20 (SU 2385 3580); a ditched bowl barrow, 8 paces x 2 ft. Excavated by J F S Stone, it yielded: a primary interment of a skull only, with flint implement shaped like phallus in chalk grave; probably Early Bronze Age. Finds in Salisbury Museum. (1-2) No trace of this barrow could be found. (3)
Discovered by Stone during his investigation of the Easton Down flint mines and associated sites (see SU 23 NW 26), the barrow survived as a low mound 23ft in diameter and 2ft high. Stone dug a trench in from the SE side to the centre of the mound. The surrounding ditch was square in section. Just N of centre, below the mound, was a vertically-sided, flat-based rectangular grave pit. In the SW corner, lying on a low pile of chalk dust, was the skull of a human adult male with a roughly flaked flint implement propped up against it. No dating evidence was recovered but Stone presumed the barrow and burial to be of Beaker/Early Bronze Age date. (4) |