| Summary : Two possible Bronze Age round barrows, visible as earthworks, were mapped from aerial photograph taken in 1946. The two barrows are located on Walton Down, immediately adjacent to the Iron Age banjo enclosure (ST 47 SW 1) and centred at ST 4300 7387. The barrow to the west, centred at ST 4298 7386, is visible as a ring ditch about 2.5 metres wide and an outside diameter of 17 metres. In the centre of the feature is a circular pit about 3 metres wide. To the east, centred at ST 4302 7387, is a semi-circular ditch about 17 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres wide. Within the feature is an elongated pit about 4 metres by 2.5 metres. This may be the fragmentary remains of a second circular disc or mutilated saucer barrow which was previously unlocated. Neither of the features are visible in aerial photographs taken in 1989, but encroaching woodland and scrub vegetation has obscured the location. |
More information : [ST 4297 7385 sited from plan]A probable disc barrow,
60ft. diameter with a central mound disturbed prior to 1856, lying
to the north of the avenue.[ST 47 SW 1].
A second disc barrow is suspected in the position shown [ST 4305
7390] as an L-shaped bank on the map, north of the avenue. (1-2)
'A' The earthwork at ST 4297 7385, has a perimeter forming a circular
depression with a maximum depth of 0.3m., except on the N.E. where
there is a fragment of bank 0.4m. high. There is a poorly defined
and much disturbed central mound 0.2m. high, of which only the
eastern half is traceable. This is possibly a disc barrow, but from
its small diameter (20.0m.) and complete isolation from any known
disc barrow, it would seem more probably a mutilated saucer
barrow.
Resurveyed at 1/2500 (ST 47 SW1 see illust. card)
'B'.Nothing resembling a barrow was found in the vicinity of the field bank referred to by Authy. 2. (3)
No change. (4)
Two possible Bronze Age round barrows, visible as earthworks, were mapped from aerial photograph taken in 1946. The two barrows are located on Walton Down, immediately adjacent to the Iron Age banjo enclosure (ST 47 SW 1) and centred at ST 4300 7387. The barrow to the west, centred at ST 4298 7386, is visible as a ring ditch about 2.5 metres wide and with an outside diameter of 17 metres. In the centre of the feature is a circular pit about 3 metres wide. To the east, centred at ST 4302 7387, is a semi-circular ditch about 17 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres wide. Within the feature is an elongated pit about 4 metres by 2.5 metres. This may be the fragmentary remains of a second circular disc or mutilated saucer barrow which was previously unlocated. Neither of the features is visible in aerial photographs taken in 1989, but encroaching woodland and scrub vegetation has obscured the location. (5-6)
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