| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the Durrington Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219633). The round barrow measures circa 18m in diameter and comprises a central mound, 0.8m high, surrounded by an incomplete ring ditch, with slight traces of an outer bank to the west and south. The barrow was opened by Cunnington in 1803 (Colt Hoare's Barrow 69), who found a large collared urn containing burnt bones with a considerable amount of decayed linen, all in a cist cut into the chalk. The round barrow was later described as a low barrow by Goddard and listed as a bowl barrow by Grinsell (both as Durrington 11). The round barrow was damaged by construction of an overlying Second World War military camp (Monument Number 1525185). It was surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `A' - SU 11724409; Durrington 11, a bowl barrow 39ft in diameter and 1.5ft high (1). Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 69) located a primary cremation within a collared urn (2). Collared urn now in Devizes Museum (DM 198). (3-4)
Durrington 11, a bowl barrow 1.1m high with traces of a ditch except on the north side. Published survey (25") revised. (5)
Originally recorded as Durrington 11 by Goddard. (6)
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. (8-10)
The Bronze Age bowl barrow referred to above (1-10) survives as earthworks centred at SU 1173 4410. It measures circa 18m in overall diameter and comprises a central mound, 0.8m high, surrounded by an incomplete ring ditch, with slight traces of an outer bank to the west and south. The top of the mound is oval and measures 5m long by 3m wide and is orientated north-west / south-east. The base of the mound measures circa 12m in diameter. The ring ditch measures up to 3m wide and is 0.1m deep. It and the outer bank, which is 2m wide and 0.1m high, have been truncated by Second World War military activity to the north-east as part of the overlying Fargo Hutted Camp (Monument Number 1525185). The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (11-12) |