More information : `K' - SU 11994408; Durrington 23 a ditched bowl barrow 60ft in diameter and 3.5ft high (1). Investigated by Colt Hoare (Barrow 78) who found it had been opened previously. (2)
Durrington 23, a bowl barrow 1.6m high with mutilated traces of a ditch. Published survey (25") revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Durrington 23 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 barrow is an outlier some 50m east of the remainder of the Durrington Down Plantation barrow cemetery. The mound is 1.0m high and the barrow is 16m in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried during consruction of the monument. This survives as a slight depression 2.0m wide. Scheduled. (9)
The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-9) survives as earthworks centred at SU 1200 4409. It comprises a circular mound, the top of which measures circa 8.5m and the base 15m in diameter, which stands circa 0.6m high. A 20th century military warning star is located on its eastern side, at SU 1200 4409. Subtle details and any surrounding ring ditch were obscured by waist high vegetation at the time of survey [2010]. Aerial photographs taken in 1970 illustrate that during the late 20th century the barrow was treated as an island in arable fields and it seems likely the mutilations to the ditch (see source 3) are the result of plough damage. The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (10-12)
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