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Monument Number 210710

Hob Uid: 210710
Location :
Wiltshire
Berwick St. John
Grid Ref : ST9389020460
Summary : A bowl barrow on Berwick Drove. The flat-topped barrow mound is terraced into the slope. It measures 15 metres in diameter, up to 1 metre high on the downhill side and about 0.3 metres high on the uphill side. A slight depression in the top of the mound may represent unrecorded past excavation. The quarry ditch surrounding the barrow survives as a depression 3 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep, except on the western side where it is no longer visible. Scheduled.
More information : (ST 93892046) Mound (NAT). (1)

A mound, on Berwick Down, 16 paces in diameter and 3 1/2 feet high,
is described by Grinsell in 1937 (2) as a ditched bowl barrow with
three trees on the mound. In 1957, however, he refers to the OS
published description of it as 'mound' and queries whether it is a
barrow or a mound of recent date (3). It is visible on
air-photographs mainly as a circular ditch. (2-4)

A flat-topped barrow, 15.0m in diameter and varying from 0.5 to 1.4m
in height above the east to west hill-slope. There are only traces
of a ditch. (5)

(ST 93892046) Tumulus (NR). (6)

A flat topped slightly irregular mound with side ditches cut into
the hill slope. It measures overall 20.0m N-S by 15.0m E-W and is
1.0m high. Almost certainly a round barrow. Published 1:2500 survey
revised. (7)

ST 93892045. A bowl barrow on Berwick Drove. The flat-topped barrow mound is terraced into the slope. It measures 15 metres in diameter, up to 1 metre high on the downhill side and about 0.3 metres high on the uphill side. A slight depression in the top of the mound may represent unrecorded past excavation. The quarry ditch surrounding the barrow survives as a depression 3 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep, except on the western side where it is no longer visible. Scheduled. (8)

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Source details : OS 6" 1926
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Source details : Pte 6" (Bristol Museum L V Grinsell 1937)
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Source details : VCH Wilts 1 1957 156 (L V Grinsell)
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Source details : F23/58 RAF 1332/0085-6 7 1 1954
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Source details : F2 PAS 03-SEP-74
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Source details : EH Scheduling amendment, 11-FEB-2002
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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
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Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork

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Related Records from other datasets:
External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 33560
External Cross Reference Notes :
External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 92 SW 22
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Related Warden Records :
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1954-04-13
End Date : 1954-04-13
Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1974-09-03
End Date : 1974-09-03