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Amesbury 68 (Grinsell)
Hob Uid: 911700
Location : Wiltshire Amesbury
Grid Ref : SU1782041810
Summary : A Bronze Age bell barrow, with a bucket urn which may represent a secondary burial. The barrow has been surveyed in the field and is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs.
More information : SU 17824181 `C' Amesbury 68. A bell barrow. Mound, diameter 90ft, and 10ft high; berm 26ft wide; ditch 26ft wide and 6ins deep. A LBA bucket-urn, probably a secondary, was recovered from here, is in Salisbury Museum. (1) The barrow conforms to Grinsell's measurements. It has been preserved by the MPBW by demarcating the area of the barrow with posts. OS 25" survey revised. (2) Barrow originally recorded as Amesbury 68 by Goddard. (3) The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, where it appears as a mound 30m in diameter, within a circular bank 60m in diameter. A ditch is visible on the inside of the bank. The barrow has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (4-7)

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Source details : VCH Wilts 1. 1957. 207 (L.V Grinsell)
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Source details : F1 20-SEP-69
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Source details : Wilts Archaeol. Natur. Mag. 38, 1913-14. 170 (E.H Goddard)
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Source details : NMR SU 1742/1 (8591/59)03-MAY-1923
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Source details : NMR SU1741/19 (8515/8653)
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Source details : NMR OS/70067 160-1 03-MAY-1970
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Source details : NMR SU 1842/34 (18645/24) 09-JAN-2000
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bell Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bell Barrow
Object Type : VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SE 181
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Relationship type : Is referred to by

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1994-12-01
End Date : 1995-08-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2001-02-01
End Date : 2001-07-01

Historic England Research Records

Amesbury 68 (Grinsell)