| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Collingbourne Kingston 4, and extant as a ditched mound 2.2 metres high and 35 metres in diameter. Excavations by Colt Hoare in circa 1805 revealed a primary deposit of a small flat bronze axe with antler haft, a perforated bone plate, a sandstone whetstone with grooves on three faces, a plain whetstone, a perforated bone pin, and two antler pointed implements. No human remains were found. |
More information : (A SU 2137 5179 and B SU 2134 5181)
Tumuli (NR). (1)
One of two ditched bowl barrows, included by Grinsell in the Snail
Down Group (SU 25 SW 10), but situated slightly south west of
the main group; both excavated by R Colt Hoare.
(A) Collingbourne Kingston 4, dimensions 28 paces in diameter
x 7 ft high.
Excavation revealed a primary deposit of a small flat bronze
axe in a horn handle, perforated bone plate, sandstone
whetstone grooved on three faces, plain whetstone, bone,
perforated bone pin, two pointed antler implements, but no
interment found. (2)
'A' Collingbourne Kingston 4; 35 m overall diameter, mound
2.2mm high, ditch 0.3 m deep.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Collingboure Kingston 4 by Goddard. (4)
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