| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the Durrington Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219633). It measures a maximum overall diameter of 17m and comprises a circular mound, which stands 1.2m high, surrounded by a concentric ring ditch. The round barrow sits immediately ESE of the larger round barrow of Durrington 20 (Monument Number 939111). The mound has suffered damage from a Second World War military trackway (Monument Number 1525191), which cuts NNW / SSE through it. The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who located a cremation within an urn (Barrow 81). It is listed by Goddard and Grinsell included it in his list of bowl barrows (both as Durrington 21). The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. |
More information : `H' - SU 11824405; Durrington 21, a bowl barrow 36ft in diameter and 3ft high (1). Excavated by Colt Hoare (Barrow 81) who located a cremation situated within an urn. (2)
Durrington 21, a mutilated ditched bowl barrow 1.2m high with an overall diameter of 15m. Published survey (25") revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Durrington 21 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 bowl barrow referred to above (1-8) survives as earthworks centred at SU 1183 4406. It measures a maximum overall diameter of 17m and comprises a circular mound, which stands 1.2m high, surrounded by a concentric ring ditch. The top of the mound measures 5m and the base is 11m in diameter. The ditch measures 4m wide and is circa 0.2m deep.
The round barrow sits immediately ESE of the larger round barrow of Durrington 20 (Monument Number 939111). The round barrow has suffered damage from a Second World War military trackway (Monument Number 1525191), which is visible as a cut NNW / SSE through the mound, between SU 1182 4406 and SU 1183 4405, and as a white strip of fresh chalk on aerial photographs taken in 1945. The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (9-11) |