More information : (SU 12424217) Tumulus (AT). (1)
Amesbury 11. A bell barrow 135 feet in diameter (2). Colt Hoare's Barrow 23, opened twice by Cunnington who found a primary cremation with bone tweezers beneath an urn. There were fragments of bluestone in the material of the mound. Tweezers in Devizes Museum. (DM 338). (3-4)
A bell barrow about 44 metres in diameter with a maximum height of 2.6 metres.
Published survey (1:2500) revised. (5)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 11 by Goddard. (6-8)
SU 1242 4216: Bronze Age bell barrows situated 100 metres east of Stonehenge south of the A344. The mound is 23 metres diameter and 3 metres high surrounded by a berm 5 metres wide. Surrounding this is a ditch 6 metres wide and 0.75 metres deep. The barrow was partially excavated during the 19th century. Finds included a primary cremation with bone tweezers beneath an urn and fragments of blue stone. The barrow has recently been geophysically surveyed and further archaeological remains have been proved to exist. Scheduled.(9)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (10)
The grandest of the Stonehenge barrow group; in addition to the elements mentioned by Authority 9, there are traces of an external bank up to 0.2m high, especially on the NE side. (11)
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