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Amesbury 7 (Goddard)
Hob Uid: 933199
Location : Wiltshire Amesbury
Grid Ref : SU1202442101
Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 7 and part of the barrow group located south west of Stonehenge and recorded as SU 14 SW 88. Excavations by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century were apparently unproductive. Geophyisical survey in 1993-4 recorded a broadly oval shaped ditch around the barrow, aligned NNW-SSE with at least two causeways towards its southern end. The mound survives as an earthwork 12 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. The barrow survives as a slight earthwork and is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as a broad oval ditch with a gap at its southern end.
More information : `D' SU 12014209; Amesbury 7, a bowl barrow 39ft in diameter and 6 inches high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 21) were unproductive (2). A bowl barrow about 12m in diameter and 0.3m high. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3) Originally recorded as Amesbury 7 by Goddard. (4) The barrow is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, where it appears as a broad oval ditch 20m x 15m, with a gap in its southern end. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (7) A combination of earthwork and geophysical survey suggest that this barrow, which survives as a mound 0.2m high, has henge-like affinities and may have earlier origins. (8)

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Source details : L 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 : Neolithic
Display Date : Neolithic
Monument End Date : -2200
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Long Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork, Sub Surface Deposit

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 : SU14SW730
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 399
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Relationship type : Is referred to by

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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 7 (Goddard)