Wilsford 45 (Goddard) |
| Hob Uid: 943428 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake
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| Grid Ref : SU1099040250 |
| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 45, and part of the Lake Group of barrows, recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by Cunnington, who found a dog skeleton and a deer skull. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound 3 metres high, badly disturbed by a badger sett, surrounded by a broad, shallow ditch, 0.2m deep. |
More information : `H' on OS Record card - SU 10984025; Wilsford 45, a ditched bowl barrow 90ft in diameter and 10ft high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare located the skeleton of a dog and the skull of a deer. (2)
Wilsford 45, a 3m high bowl barrow with a shallow encircling ditch. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 45 by Goddard. (4)
Additional reference. (5)
The barrow falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. It has been included on the survey maps, but is covered by trees, and no further information could be added from aerial photographic evidence. (6)
The 3m high mound of this barrow is badly disturbed by a badger sett; it is surrounded to N, E and S by a broad ditch surviving only 0.2m deep. A projection of the outer lip of this ditch would take it through the edge of the mound of adjacent barrow Wilsford 44; as there is no disturbance of that mound and no reason to suppose the ditch incomplete, it must be concluded that in its final form 44 is later and overlies the ditch of 45. (7)
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