Barrow 2 (Colt Hoare) |
| Hob Uid: 943503 | |
Location :
Wiltshire
Wilsford cum Lake
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| Grid Ref : SU1076640207 |
| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 36f, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who discovered a primary cremation and an incense cup. Re-excavated by Grimes in 1959, who found a flexed inhumation of a young male on the west side of the barrow, and the flexed inhumation of a young adult female and a small child on the opposite, eastern side. The central burial pit was also found, although it had been disturbed and only fragments of cremated bone remained. Finds included scrapers, Beaker and Peterborough Ware sherds, and animal remains. A ditch, 10 to 12 metres in diameter, surrounded the barrow. No surface traces survive of the mound or ditch, but the barrow may be visible as a rather indistinct cropmark on aerial photographs. |
More information : `Q' - SU 10764022; Wilsford 36f a bowl barrow 18ft in diameter and 6ft high. Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 2) located a cremation with an incense cup. (DM 170) (1-2)
This barrow was excavated by W.F Grimes in 1959 and was found to contain a central primary burial pit containing a few fragments of cremated bone with, in the surrounding area, remains of the inhumation of a young person. To the east, along the east-west axis, lay the flexed skeleton of a young man of about 15 years. It lay on its right side looking west and had been laid upon the ground surface before the mound was constructed. In a similar position to the west of centre lay the skeletons of an adult female of between 20 and 30 years and a child, the woman front downwards but with the head facing east. The fragmentary remains of the child were 12" to the south west of the adult skull. The barrow is ditched and measured 10m east-west, and 12m north-south across the ditches. (3)
The postion of 36f cannot be identified on the ground. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
SU 1076 4020. An indistinct roughly circular feature 9m x 7m, possibly representing the remains this a plough levelled barrow mound, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs, close to the location given in authority 1. It has been mapped, and its location slightly redefined, by EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. This possible barrow is nearly contiguous with a similar feature immediately to the northeast (SU 14 SW 536), described as either an oval mound or two confluent mounds. (6) |