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Durrington 53 (Goddard)
Hob Uid: 858736
Location : Wiltshire Durrington
Grid Ref : SU1354043620
Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow survives as earthworks and forms part of the cemetery group recorded as Monument Number 219428. It comprises a roughly circular mound with a step or ledge around all but the very western side which may suggest two phases of construction. The lower mound is circa 1m and the upper mound 0.4m high. The summit is 5m across, the ledge a maximum of 2m wide and the base of the mound is 18m in diameter. The mound has been damaged by ploughing and is now slightly narrower to the north-east and south-west. The barrow was excavated in the early 19th century by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who located a possible primary cremation with a bone pin (Barrow 107:1812). It was listed as Durrington 53 by Goddard (1913) and as a bowl barrow by Grinsell (1957). The site was mapped at a scale of 1:10,000 from aerial photographs as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project and the mapping revised at a scale of 1:2500 for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. The round barrow was also surveyed at at 1:1000 in December 2011 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project.
More information : SU 13534363; Durrington 53, a bowl barrow 45ft x 5 ft high, shown as a ditch on OS 6" (1). Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 107), located a possible primary cremation with a bone pin, above a pile of ashes in a cist. (2) Durrington 53 a slightly oval bowl barrow 1.3m high with faint vestiges of a ditch. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3) Originally recorded as Durrington 53 by Goddard (4) 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. (6-7) The Bronze Age round barrow referred to above (1-7) survives as an earthwork which was surveyed at at 1:1000 in December 2011 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It comprises a roughly circular mound with a step or ledge around all but the very western side which may suggest two phases of construction. The lower mound is circa 1m and the upper mound 0.4m high. The summit is 5m across, the ledge a maximum of 2m wide and the base of the mound is 18m in diameter. The mound has been damaged by ploughing and is now slightly narrower to the north-east and south-west. (8)

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Source details : Grinsell, LV. Archaeological Gazetteer
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Source details : Goddard, EH. A list of prehistoric, Roman and pagan Saxon antiquities in the county of Wiltshire...
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Source details : Record number 883
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Source details : USAAF US/7PH/GP/LOC122 1060-61 24-DEC-1943
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Source details : NMR SU 1343/31 (15799/16) 08-SEP-1997
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Source details : Sharon Soutar/04-JAN-2012/English Heritage: Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork, Sub Surface Deposit

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
Object Type : CREMATION, PIN
Object Material : Bone

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Wiltshire)
External Cross Reference Number : SU14SW704
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 10246
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SU 14 SW 272
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Relationship type : Is referred to by

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1994-12-01
End Date : 1995-08-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2001-02-01
End Date : 2001-07-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2008-01-01
End Date : 2013-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Durrington 53 (Goddard)