Amesbury 4 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 933186 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Amesbury
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| Grid Ref : SU1188942093 |
| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 4 and part of a group immediately south west of Stonehenge recorded as SU 14 SW 88. Excavations by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century loctaed a primary cremation accompanied by a bronze dagger and an awl. A large piece of bluestone was found in the soil immediately above the cremation deposit. A secondary burial deposit featured two inhumations on the old ground surface, accompanied by antlers and sarsen chips. Bluestone chips had apparently been found in the mound previously by Stukeley (in the 1720s?). The barrow mound has been damaged almost beyond recognition, presumably by the roadway immediately to the west. Geophysical survey in the Stonehenge area in 1993-4 recorded a ring ditch of 29.5 metres diameter. The barrow mound survives as an earthwork and is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as two closely spaced concentric ditches. |
More information : `A' SU 11884208; Amesbury 4, a bowl barrow 78ft in diameter and 4ft high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 16) located a primary cremation within a cist accompanied by a bronze dagger and an awl; above the cist was a piece of blue stone. There was a (?) secondary burial of two inhumations on the floor with antlers and sarsen chippings nearby and blue stone chips had been previously found in the mound by Stukeley (2). Dagger now in Devizes Museum. (DM 1142) (3).
Amesbury 4 has been mutilated beyond recognition obviously by the new roadway immediately to the west. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 4 by Goddard. (5)
The barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as two closely spaced concentric ditches with an overall diameter of 28m. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8)
An almost circular mound measuring 24 by 22m and 0.5m high; a small superficial mound on the summit is probably the result of damage; surrounding ditches not visible on the surface. (9)
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