| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 45c, 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 primary cremation. The barrow location is disputed; Grinsell placed it at SU 1097 4022 and listed it as destroyed but there is a low mound circa 10 metres across and 0.2 metres high, situated at SU 11024030; this might be the barrow but it is in an area of recent disturbance and dumping. |
More information : `J'- SU 10974023; Wilsford 45c, a barrow listed as destroyed by Grinsell although it is a published site. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 13) located a cremation. There is some doubt over the correlation of this barrow to Colt Hoare's no. 13, he does not show this barrow on his map of the Lake Group, where he numbers them, but he does show it on his map of Stonehenge and its Environs. It has also been suggested that barrow 13 was situated at approximately SU 11004027. (1-2)
Wilsford 45c. The published mound, adjacent to Wilsford 45 (SU 14 SW 467) and Wilsford 46 (SU 14 SW 469) appears to be simply a continuation of the original ground level accentuated by the building of the two large barrows. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 45c by Goddard. (4) The barrow has been sited to SU 11024030 where a low mound 10m across and 0.2m high is visible. (5) Additional refeence. (6)
The location of this 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, but the barrow was not included on either survey map. The location is covered by trees, and no further information could be obtained from aerial photographic evidence. (7)
This small barrow is obscured by modern disturbance and debris; there is a diminutive amorphous mound at the location indicated by Authority 5 but it appears to consist of loose, unconsolidated chalk and other material. (8)
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