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Monument Number 211411
Hob Uid: 211411
Location : Wiltshire Heytesbury
Grid Ref : ST9249044170
Summary : A long barrow, (Grinsell's Heytesbury 4), a number of inhumations located at the southern end. Human remains noted within a badger hole on the mound
More information : (ST 92494417) Long Barrow (GT) (1) A long barrow oriented N-S, 160 ft long, 90 ft wide and 6 ft high (2) with side ditches visible on AP's (5). Excavated by Cunnington and Wyndham in 1800 and later, when 'a great many skeletons" were found at the south end. (2-5) A long barrow at ST92494418, 1.4m high with a broad flat top. The ditches cannot be seen on the ground. Surveyed at 1:2500 (6) No change; report of 6.11.68. correct. (7) Fragmentary human bones found in a badger hole, date unknown. Salisbury Museum Acc. No. 1984.12 (8) Barrow originally recorded as Heytesbury 4 by Goddard (9) Additional description by Cunnington. (10) Heytesbury 4 (ST30 Kinnes) Mortuary area at southern end with a pit filled with black earth, flint and chalk rubble situated to the north of the inhumations. Covered by black earth, flint, chalk and sarsen. The mound comprises a black earth core capped by chalk rubble. (11)

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Source details : OS 6", 1961
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Source details : VCH Wilts, 1, 1957, 141 (L V Grinsell)
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Source Number : 11
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Source details : British Museum Occ. Paper 52:Non Megalithic Longbarrows and Allied Structures in British Neolithic. 1992, 10, 25 (I. Kinnes)
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Source details : Anc Hist of S Wilts, 1812, 71H (R C Hoare)
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Source details : WAM, 39, 1915-7, 399
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Source Number : 5
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Source details : Crawford Collection AP: No 3071, 15.5.33
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : F1 ANK 06-NOV-68
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Source details : F2 MJF 27-JUN-75
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Source details : WAM 80, 1986, 244
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : WAM 38, 1913-14 263 (E.H Goddard)
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Source Number : 10
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Source details : WAM 38, 1913-14, 392-393 (M.E Cunnington)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Neolithic
Display Date : Neolithic
Monument End Date : -2200
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Long Barrow, Inhumation
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Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Human Remains, Findspot
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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : ST94SW101
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : WI 422
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 10283
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 101
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 94 SW 6
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1800-01-01
End Date : 1800-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1800-01-01
End Date : 1810-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1968-11-06
End Date : 1968-11-06

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1975-06-27
End Date : 1975-06-27

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 211411