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Durrington 18 (Goddard)
Hob Uid: 937987
Location : Wiltshire Durrington
Grid Ref : SU1178044090
Summary : A Bronze Age round barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the Durrington Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219633). It has an overall maximum diameter of 25m and comprises a circular mound which stands c 0.9m high and sits off centre on a circular platform surrounded by a shallow ring ditch. A short berm separates the barrow mound from the top edge of the ditch on all but the western sides, giving the barrow a slightly skewed bell form. The barrow mound has suffered damage from a Second World War military trackway (Monument Number 1525191), which probably also explains the presence of a 20th century military warning star on the barrow's western side. The round barrow sits at the western end of an east / west line of three barrows of similar dimensions. The barrow was opened by Colt Hoare in the early 19th century (Barrow 83), who found a sepulchral urn with a small brass pin. It was listed by Goddard and as a bowl barrow by Grinsell (both as Durrington 18). The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project.
More information : `F' - SU 11784409; Durrington 18, a ditched bowl barrow 54ft in diameter and 4.5ft high (1). Investigations by Colt Hoare (barrow 83) found an urn and a bronze awl. (2) Durrington 18; a ditched bowl barrow 1.6m high with a 0.3m deep ditch. Published survey (25") revised. (3) Originally recorded as Durrington 18 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. (6-8) The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-8) survives as earthworks centred at SU 1178 4410. It has an overall maximum diameter of 25m and comprises a central circular mound, which sits off centre to the west within a ring ditch. The mound stands 0.9m high: its top measures 5m and its base 12m in diameter. The ditch measures circa 5.5m wide and 0.3m deep. A short berm separates the barrow mound from the top edge of the ditch on all but the western sides, giving the barrow a slightly skewed bell form. The round barrow has suffered damage from a Second World War military trackway (Monument Number 1525191), which is visible as a cut south-west / north-east through the mound, between SU 1178 4409 and SU 1179 4410, and as a white strip of fresh chalk on aerial photographs taken in 1943 (source 7). This probably also explains the presence of a 20th century military warning star on the barrow's western side, at SU 1177 4410. The barrow sits at the western end of an east / west line of three round barrows of similar dimensions ((with Durrington 19 and 22: Monument Numbers 938257 and 938261). It was surveyed at 1:1,000scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (9-10)

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Source details : Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer
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Source details : Goddard, EH. A list of prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiquities in the county of Wiltshire...
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Source details : NMR SU 1144/2 (CCC 11752/4513) XX-JAN-1927
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Source details : USAAF US/7PH/GP/LOC122 1082-3 24-DEC-1943
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Source details : NMR SU 1243/3/367-8 (1352/367-8) 11-OCT-1978
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Source details : Sharon Bishop/24-SEP-2010/English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project
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Source details : Bishop, S 2010 Durrington Firs. Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. Archaeological Survey Report. RDRS 86/2010. Swindon: English Heritage.
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Monument Types:

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

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Bell Barrow
Object Type : AWL, VESSEL
Object Material : Bronze, Pottery

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW636
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 410
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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

Durrington 18 (Goddard)