| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Winterbourne Stoke 46, and part of the barrow group recorded as SU 14 SW 19. Excavations in the early 19th century by Cunnington located a probable primary interment with a bronze dagger, a whetstone, bone tweezers and other bone objects. Excavations by Vatcher in 1961 showed the surrounding ditch to have an overall diameter of 23 metres. The limits of the mound could not be determined, but a berm was present. No central burial was identified, but four secondary cremations were recovered. A small collared urn and a concentration of stake holes were recorded outside the barrow ditch. Late Bronze Age sherds were recovered from the surface of the mound. There are no surface traces of the barrow. |
More information : `D' - SU 10404427; Winterbourne Stoke 46, a bowl barrow, 20 paces in diameter, 2 ft high. Colt Hoare's barrow 57, excavations by Cunnington located a probable primary interment with a bronze dagger, whetstone, bone tweezers and other bone objects. (1-2)
The NGR for this site would seen to be a mistake, it probably should be SU 10394425 ie. the remaining published barrow. This could not however be identified on the ground. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 46 by Goddard (4).
(SU 10394425) Excavations by Vatcher in 1961 revealed the ditch to have an overall diameter of 23m, and 4.50m wide, the limits of the mound were not determined but a berm was present. No central burial was noted but four secondary cremations were recovered from the periphery of the mound and the ditch. A small collared urn and a concentration of stake holes were recorded outside of the barrow ditch.
Late Bronze Age pottery was recovered from the surface of the mound. (5-6)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on early aerial photographs, and on later photographs appears as a cropmark. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8-10) |