More information : `C' - SU 13464215. Amesbury 28, a bowl barrow 120ft in diameter and 12ft high. (1)
Amesbury 28, a bell barrow with a maximum height of 4.4m and an overall diameter of 51m. The eastern section of the ditch has been destroyed. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (2)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 28 by Goddard. (3)
The barrow falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. It has been included on the survey maps, but is covered by trees, and no further information could be added from aerial photographic evidence. (5)
The Bronze Age bell barrow referred to above (1-5) survives as earthworks which were surveyed by the RCHME in 1990 and observed in April 2011 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project - Level 1 survey. The earthworks measure circa 49m in diameter but are truncated to the east at the edge of the post medieval plantation. They take a bell form, comprising a roughly circular mound of two phases which stands 4.4m high and sits on a platform of between 35m and 39m in diameter, defined by an incomplete ring ditch 0.6m deep and between 8m and 10m wide. A berm of between 3.5m and 4.5m separates the foot of the mound from the ring ditch. The summit of the mound measures 9.5m and the base circa 32m in diameter. (6) |