More information : (SU 11014292) Tumulus (NR) (site of). (1)
SU 11014292; Winterbourne Stoke 30, a destroyed bowl barrow. (2) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 44) located a possible primary cremation. (3)
Re-excavation of Winterbourne Stoke 30 in 1958 proved it to have been a bell barrow with a central mound 46ft in diameter and a berm approx. 4-6ft wide. A central cremation pit with a small quanitity of bone and ashes was found with, to the west of it, four stake holes, one of which may have contained a laying-out peg. On the north west side of the barrow a curious oval-shaped hollow was found with a deposit of ash and charcoal at its base, it appeared to ante-date the ditch.
A crouched skeleton of a child about seven years of age was found in the primary silts of the ditch, nearby on the top of this layer was the remains of a newly born infant. Other finds include a tanged and barbed arrowhead and pottery of LBA to RB periods. (4)(6)
There are no intelligible remains of Winterbourne Stoke 30. Numerous amorphous undulations in the area are probably the result of wartime cultivation. (5)
Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 30 by Goddard. (7)
The flint assemblage from the excavations contained nothing earlier than Late Neolithic in date, and is now in Salisbury Museum (Acc. No. 48.1980. (8-9)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork and a cropmark on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (11-13)
No surface trace in heavily disturbed area. (14)
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