| Summary : A Bronze Age pond barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the Lake Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 218330). It is probably one of the round barrows excavated by Mr Edward Duke of Lake House in the early 19th century (Number 12, 13 or 14). The round barrow was listed as Wilsford 78 by Goddard and subsequently by Grinsell. It was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The barrow lies roughly central to the group. It has an overall diameter of 23m and comprises a circular depression, circa 1.3m deep, encircled by a bank 0.2m high and up to 2m wide. An intrusion, 0.2m deep and just south of its centre, measures 5.8m long by circa 1.1m wide; it is aligned north-east to south-west, giving the barrow an irregular profile. The flat floor of the depression measures circa 9.5m in diameter. A breach, circa 3.9m wide, is visible in the bank to the north-east. |
More information : Bronze Age pond barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 78 and part of the Lake Down barrow group recorded as SU 13 NW 48. Excavated by Duke, it was either unproductive, or produced a possible primary cremation (there is some confusion between this and Wilsford 77 (SU 13 NW 125)). See the parent record (SU 13 NW 48) and the Ordnance Survey record card for details of dimensions. The barrow is still extant as an earthwork. (1-3)
The barrow has been recorded on aerial photographs as a ring bank, with a diameter of 21m, with a central depression 12.5m wide. It is centred at SU 1182 3926.
A field visit by the OS in 1972 found the barrow to be 23.5m across, with a bank 0.4m high and a central depression 1.1m deep. The excavation and geophysical survey records for the barrow cemetery are listed in SU 13 NW 48. (4-9)
The Bronze Age pond barrow referred to above (1.9) was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in May 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The barrow lies roughly central to the group and was originally listed by Goddard in 1913. It has an overall diameter of 23m and comprises a circular depression, circa 1.3m deep, encircled by a bank 0.2m high and up to 2m wide. An intrusion, 0.2m deep and just south of its centre, measures 5.8m long by circa 1.1m wide; it is aligned north-east to south-west, giving the barrow an irregular profile. The flat floor of the depression measures circa 9.5m in diameter. A breach, circa 3.9m wide, is visible in the bank to the north-east. (10-11) |