More information : `D' - SU 13454221; Amesbury 29, a bowl barrow 120ft in diameter and 12ft high. (1)
Amesbury 29, a ditched bowl barrow 48m in diameter and 4.2m high. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (2)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 29 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 bowl 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 barrow earthworks measure 51m in diameter but are overlain to the north and east by part of the post medieval plantation wood bank (Monument Number 1541258) and truncated to the east at the edge of the plantation. The round barrow comprises a circular mound of two phases which stands 4.2m high and is surrounded by a ring ditch. The summit of the mound measures circa 8.5m and the base 40m in diameter; the ditch is 0.7m deep to the north of the mound but only 0.4m deep to its south and measures between 6m and 8m wide. The mound suffered at least 4 areas of damage from wind-blown trees in 1987 and 1990. (6) |