More information : `O' - SU 11804405; Durrington 20, a disc barrow about 75ft wide with the tump apparently east of centre. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 82) located two cremations and a cist containing ashes. (2)
Durrington 20, a disc barrow 30m. in diameter with a 0.5m deep ditch. Tump is 0.6m high and is east of the centre. Published survey (25") revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Durrington 20 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 1180 4406. It measures a maximum overall diameter of 36m although its southern edge is truncated by the plantation fence and the ploughed field beyond. The barrow comprises a kidney shaped mound which sits east of centre on a central circular platform which is surrounded by a concentric ring ditch and incomplete outer bank. The mound stands 0.7m high at its south-western end and circa 0.2m high at its eastern end, which is slightly up-slope. The mound extends for 16.5m WSW / ENE and measures 10.5m across its southernmost end. The ring ditch measures 6.5m wide and is circa 0.15 deep; the outer bank is 3m wide and stands a maximum of 0.2m high. A berm measuring up to 5.5m separates the barrow mound from the top edge of the ditch on all but the eastern side, forming a platfrom which is 21m in diameter. The round barrow was surveyed at 1:1,000 scale by English Heritage in 2010 as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. (9-10) |