More information : SU 13534363; Durrington 53, a bowl barrow 45ft x 5 ft high, shown as a ditch on OS 6" (1). Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 107), located a possible primary cremation with a bone pin, above a pile of ashes in a cist. (2)
Durrington 53 a slightly oval bowl barrow 1.3m high with faint vestiges of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Originally recorded as Durrington 53 by Goddard (4)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (6-7)
The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-7) survives as an earthwork which was surveyed at at 1:1000 in December 2011 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It comprises a roughly circular mound with a step or ledge around all but the very western side which may suggest two phases of construction. The lower mound is circa 1m and the upper mound 0.4m high. The summit is 5m across, the ledge a maximum of 2m wide and the base of the mound is 18m in diameter. The mound has been damaged by ploughing and is now slightly narrower to the north-east and south-west. (8) |