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Amesbury 5 (Goddard)
Hob Uid: 933191
Location : Wiltshire Amesbury
Grid Ref : SU1198442087
Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 5 and part of the barrow group south west of Stonehenge recorded as SU 14 SW 88. Excavated by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century without result. Geophysical survey in 1993-4 confirmed the presence of a surrounding ditch 39 metres in diameter. The mound survives to a height of 0.5 metres and the ditch is partly visible, 0.1m deep. The barrow is also visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as two closely spaced concentric ditches.
More information : `B' SU 11974208; Amesbury 5, a bowl barrow 108ft in diameter and 1ft high with a slight ditch (1). Excavated by Colt Hoare (Barrow 18) without result (2). Amesbury 5, a bowl barrow about 35m in diameter and 0.4m high. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3) Originally recorded as Amesbury 5 by Goddard. (4) The barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as two closely spaced concentric ditches with an overall diameter of 37m. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (7) Mound measuring 32 by 30m and 0.5m high with a secondary mound on the summit; the ditch is still visible except to the east, 0.1m deep and up to 7m wide. (8)

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Source details : LV Grinsell: Archaeological Gazetteer
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Source details : EH Goddard: A list of prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiquities in the county of Wiltshire...
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Source details : NMR SU 1242/365-6 (15573/16-17) 22-AUG-1996
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Source details : D Field and T Pearson, Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project: Stonehenge Down and Triangle
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Vol(s) : 105-2011

Monument Types:

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

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 10368
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW727
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 397
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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

Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2008-01-01
End Date : 2013-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Amesbury 5 (Goddard)