More information : `B' - SU 11574124; Wilsford 4, a good example of a disc barrow, overall diameter of 192ft. (1) Colt Hoare's barrow 159, it had been opened either by Stukeley or the Earl of Pembroke and a (?) primary cremation had been found. (2)
Wilsford 4, a disc barrow. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 4 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 disc barrow referred to above (1-7) was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in April 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. It has been recorded as part of the Normanton Down (Centre) barrow group (Monument Number 219537) and forms part of the Normanton Down round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 1531088). The surviving earthworks have an overall diameter of 56m and comprise a small central mound which sits on a remarkably circular platform surrounded by a ring ditch and concentric outer bank. The mound stands 0.3m high: its top measures 5.5m and its base 10m is in diameter. A circular hollow, 0.2m deep, occupies most of the summit. The platform measures 36m in diameter. The ditch is 6m wide and the outer bank 4m wide. The monument has been truncated to the north-west by a modern fence line and a trackway beyond. (8)
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