More information : `K' - SU 11914130; Wilsford 11, a bowl barrow with a ditch and outer bank; the overall diameter is 130ft and the height of the central mound 6.5ft. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 150) proved unproductive. (2)
Wilsford 11. A bowl barrow with a ditch and faint outer bank. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (3)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 11 by Goddard. (4)
Reference to excavation by Thurnam. (5)
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 earthworks, which were surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in April 2010 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project. The site 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 38.5m and suggest a cross between bell and bowl forms. The round barrow comprises an oval mound, with a distinct berm to the east and a corresponding break in slope to the west, which is surrounded by a ring ditch and sections of a concentric but incomplete outer bank. The oval mound stands 2.5m high: its top measure 8.5m north / south by 6m wide. The mound continues uninterrupted to the bottom of the ditch on its NNW and SSE sides, giving a maximum diameter at its base of 29m. The eastern berm measures up to 3m wide and the ring ditch measures up to 10.5m wide and 0.4m deep. The outer bank is 0.4m high and circa 3m wide. The round barrow abuts Wilsford 14 (Monument Number 943186) to the south-east but their chronological relationship is not clear from the earthworks. (8) |