| Summary : Bronze Age bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 37, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who found that it had been opened previously. It was re-excavated in 1959 by Grimes, who found a roughly central pit assumed to have contained the primary burial. Its fill contained one of Cunnington's lead plaques, featuring the inscription OPEND 1804 WC. A small quantity of burnt bones, possibly of a child, remained. From what Grimes described as 'later deposits' came some flint implements including a serrated flake and an end-scraper; two sherds of Peterborough Ware; some Beaker sherds; and a Bronze Age rim-sherd. The excavation also encountered the surrounding ditch at four points on its circumference. The barrow is extant as a much denuded mound circa 0.3 metres high. The perimeter ditch is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. |
More information : `A' - SU 10754024; Wilsford 37, a bowl barrow 72ft in diameter and 3ft high. (1) Excavations by Colt Hoare (Barrow 3) found it had been opened previously. (2)
This barrow was excavated by W.F Grimes in June and July 1959. The barrow was found to be ditched, enclosing an area about 46ft in diameter, and contained, in a central pit, a primary cremation. Most of the remains had been removed though a few pieces of bone remained, among them fragments of the skull of a child probably about 10 years old. Other finds included two fragments of Peterborough Ware, sherds of beaker pottery and a fragment of a bevelled rim, apparently part of a cinerary urn. (3)
Wilsford 37, a much denuded 0.4m high bowl barrow. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)
Originally recorded as Wilsford 37 by Goddard. (5)
SU 1075 4023. The barrow's perimeter ditch, 17m in diameter, is visible as a cropmark on aerial photographs. It has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (7)
Surveyed at Level 1 for EH Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project; the barrow survives only as an amorphous swelling 22.5m across and up to 0.3m high; it has clearly suffered plough damage since the 1970s. (8)
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