Winterbourne Stoke 15 (Goddard) |
Hob Uid: 870457 | |
Location : Wiltshire Winterbourne Stoke
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Grid Ref : SU1009641738 |
Summary : A Bronze Age disc barrow survives as earthworks near the north-eastern end of the secondary alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 56.5m and comprises a small central mound which sits on a circular platform that is defined by a ring ditch, with fragments of an outer bank. A crescent ditch to the south-east of the mound could suggest an earlier phase. The barrow appears to be overlain by the edge of Winterbourne Stoke 14 to the north (Monument Number 870450), although here the earthworks are much denuded. The round barrow was excavated by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in the early 19th century, who located a primary cremation (Barrow 17: 1812). It was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 15 by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). It 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 : `P' - SU 10094173; Winterbourne Stoke 15, a disc barrow with an overall diameter of 170ft. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 17) located a primary cremation. (1-2)
A disc barrow 52m in diameter. (3)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 15 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. (6-9)
The Bronze Age disc barrow referred to above (1-9) 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 56.5m and comprises a small central mound which sits on a circular platform that is defined by a ring ditch, with fragments of an outer bank. The mound stands 0.4m high: its summit measures nearly 4m and its base is 11m in diameter. A crescent ditch, 0.2m deep, to the south-east of the mound could suggest an earlier phase. The platform measures circa 34.6m in diameter. The ditch measures between 6m and 7m wide and 0.3m deep. The outer bank is circa 4m wide and rises to a maximum of 0.2m: the section east of the ring ditch is slightly more substantial. The barrow appears to be overlain by the edge of Winterbourne Stoke 14 to the north (Monument Number 870450), although here the earthworks are much denuded. The southern side of the outer bank has also suffered damage from ploughing and vehicles. (10-11). |