Winterbourne Stoke 3a (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 870374 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake, Winterbourne Stoke
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| Grid Ref : SU1010541651 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age pond barrow survives as earthworks within the main alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 20.5m and comprises a slight bank which almost completely encloses a circular hollow, except to the south-west. The bank is only 0.1m high and a maximum of 6m wide. The hollow reaches a depth of 0.7m below the external ground surface: it is circa 8.5m in diameter, with a flat bottom, 4m in diameter, which contains a smaller circular hollow, north of centre. The round barrow clearly overlies the edge of the ditch around Winterbourne Stoke 4 (Monument Number 370384), with a corresponding effect on the berm. The pond barrow is therefore a later addition. There is no record of any excavation. It was Sir Richard Colt Hoare's Winterbourne Stoke Down barrow 14 (1812) and was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 3a by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). The round barrow was mapped from aerial photographs at a scale of 1:10,000 as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project and this mapping revised at a scale of 1:2500 for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. The round barrow was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `B'- SU 10104166 Winterbourne Stoke 3a. A pond barrow with an overall diameter of 66ft. It overlaps, and is later than Winterbourne Stoke 4. Colt Hoare's barrow 14. (1-2)
Winterbourne Stoke 3a. A pond barrow 20m in diameter, the bank is up to 0.2m high, the central depression 0.7m deep. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 3a 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. (6-8)
The Bronze Age pond barrow referred to above (1-8) survives as earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has an overall diameter of 20.5m and comprises a slight bank which almost completely encloses a circular hollow, except to the south-west. The bank is only 0.1m high and a maximum of 6m wide. The hollow reaches a depth of 0.7m below the external ground surface: it is circa 8.5m in diameter, with a flat bottom, 4m in diameter, which contains a smaller circular hollow, north of centre. The round barrow clearly overlies the edge of the ditch around Winterbourne Stoke 4 (Monument Number 370384), with a corresponding effect on the berm. The pond barrow is therefore a later addition. Its south-east side is just clipped by a probable field boundary ditch and overlain by a low bank that is part of the same boundary . (9-10)
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