| More information : ('A' - SY 60688893) Tumulus (NR).
('B' - SY 60688901; 'C' - SY 60718904; 'D' - SY 60758902; 'E' -
SY 60868906) Tumuli (NR). (1)
Five round barrows, including a double bowl and a pond barrow
lie above apparent limit of 'Celtic' fields on a broad spur
running North East from the Ridgeway at about 460 ft above OD.
'A' Bowl (60688893) on slight South East slope. diam 35 ft ht 2
1/2 ft Damaged by excavation.
'B' Pond barrow (60708901) 93 yds North North East of 'A'
Central depression, diam 35 ft, depth 2 ft, surrounded by bank
10 ft to 12 ft wide and 5 ins high. Excavation by H G Wakefield
for the commission in 1947-8 and by R J C Atkinson in 1950
showed that a pavement of flints gathered from the top-soil
largely covered the depression. Beneath and around the pavement
were thirty-five pits cut into the chalk subsoil, in some cases
through the pavement. Seventeen pits contained Early Bronze Age
urns, two held an urn and an inhumation, one held a urn and a
cremation, seven contained only cremations, and eight were
filled with soil alone. The whole site had been stripped before
the pavement was laid, the pits dug, and the bank built.
'C' Ditched double bowl (60728904) immediately adjacent on
North North East of 'B'. diams of mounds 59 ft and 55 ft, hts
5 ft and 4 1/2 ft; joined by slight bank and surrounded by
hour- glass shaped ditch 12 ft wide. Partially sectioned during
excavation of 'B', the ditch was just over 2 ft deep and
probably dug before 'B' was constructed. Bronze Age sherds probably of bucket urn found on south West of W mound.
'D' Bowl (?) (60758902) 30 yds South east of E mound of 'C' Diam
50 ft, ht 3 1/2 ft.
'E' Bowl (?) (60878907) on summit of spur 130 yds North East of
'D'. Only slight rise remains. (2-3)
'A' SY 60698893. Bowl barrow in arable, ploughed-down. Diameter
10.5m., height 0.4m.-0.7m. No visible ditch.
'B' Ploughed out. No remains.
'C' SY 60708904. Twin bowl barrows, with ditch 6.0m. wide on
south side only, possibly, but not certainly, common to both.
Each barrow is 18.0m in diameter and 2.0m. high, in arable but
not ploughed.
'D' SY 60758902. Bowl barrow in arable, not ploughed over.
Diameter 17.0m., height 1.7m. No visible ditch.
'E' SY 60868906. Barrow in arable, ploughed almost flat.
Diameter approximately 20.0m., height 0.2m. No visible ditch.
A, C, D, E Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. Detail of B deleted on
1:2500 MSD. (4)
The previously recorded barrows were mapped as earthworks from vertical aerial photographs taken in 1947 during the 2023 Historic England Valley of Stones project. They have been given separate monument records: 1631336, 1631337, 1631338, 1631340 (see Related Monuments).
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