Amesbury 8 (Goddard) |
Hob Uid: 933204 | |
Location : Wiltshire Amesbury
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Grid Ref : SU1205342143 |
Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Amesbury 8 and part of the barrow group south west of Stonehenge and recorded as SU 14 SW 88. Excavations by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century located a primary inhumation. The barrow had apparently been disturbed on a previous occasion. Geophyisical survey in 1993-4 located a surrounding ditch of irregular, sub-circular form with at least two breaks in its circuit. The mound survives as an earthwork about 13 metres in diameter and 0.2 metres high. |
More information : `E'- SU 12044213, Amesbury 8. A bowl barrow 39ft in diameter and 6 inches high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 20) found a (?) primary inhumation but the barrow had been previously disturbed (2).
Amesbury 8, a bowl barrow about 18m in diameter and 0.3m high. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 8 by Goddard. (4)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (7)
A small circular mound no more than 12-13m in diameter and 0.2m high; it has been severely reduced by cultivation. Geophysical survey suggests considerable complexity in the ditch, which is not visible on the surface. (8)
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