| Summary : A Bronze Age disc barrow, listed by Grinsell as Winterbourne Stoke 47, and part of the barrow group recorded as SU 14 SW 19. Excavations in the early 19th century by Cunnington located an urn. Excavation in 1961 by Vatcher located a circle of stake holes beneath the mound, and a central grave containing a primary cremation with amber and jet beads, a bronze dagger with traces of a textile wrapping, and a bronze awl. A secondary cremation with bronze awl was found in a pit on the berm. Beaker and Middle-Late Bronze Age sherds were also found from a variety of contexts. Romano-British sherds were recovered from the ploughsoil. The ditch and traces of the outer bank, overall diameter 54 metres, survive as earthworks. |
More information : `E' - SU 10504432; Winterbourne Stoke 47, a disc barrow, mound 60ft in diameter, 1 1/2ft high. Colt Hoare's barrow 61, excavated by Cunnington and contained an urn. (1-2)
A low disc barrow, only the ditch and traces of the outer bank can be seen; diameter 54. Very similar to Winterbourne Stoke 50 (SU 14 SW 300). Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 47 by Goddard (4).
(SU 10504430) Excavations by Vatcher in 1961 found it had not been previously excavated. Vatcher described the barrow as almost a henge-like structure with a concentric arrangement of a stake circle, turf wall, flint wall and chalk bank and a passage entrance. Gingell argues that the inner chalk bank covering the flint wall could be interpreted as the base of the chalk covering of the turf core. A central grave contained a primary cremation, amber and jet beads, a bronze dagger wrapped in textile, and a bronze awl. A secondary cremation with a bronze awl was located within a grave pit on the berm.
Beaker and Middle-Late Bronze Age pottery was recovered from various mound contexts (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) |