| Summary : A Bronze Age bowl or bell barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 47, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in 1805 or 1806 by the Reverend E Duke, who reportedly found a cremation and a dagger. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound 2.8 metres high, and the inner scarp of the surrounding ditch survives beyond a berm, supporting Grinsell's suggestion that it is a bell barrow. |
More information : `L' - SU 11014021; Wilsford 47, a bowl barrow 90ft in diameter and 7ft high, may have been a bell barrow. Grinsell has correlated it to Colt Hoare's barrow 16. (1)
Wilsford 47, a bowl barrow 2.5m high. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (2)
There is uncertainty over the contents of this barrow. Goddard states this barrow contained a cremation with a dagger, results of Rev. E. Duke's excavations (Barrow ?1) carried out in 1805 (3). Grinsell (1) has not attempted any correlation. Finds listed in the Devizes Museum catalogue, including a bronze awl, two miniature vessels, four gold discs, amber beads, two amber pendants, could have come from this barrow or from either Wilsford 49 (SU 14 SW 472) or Wilsford 50 (SU 14 SW 473). (4) Additional reference. (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)
This barrow now lies in pasture though it was formerly within the wooded area. The outer part of the surrounding ditch has been ploughed away but the inner lip survives as an earthwork, separated from the mound by a berm, suggesting that Grinsell's alternative classification as a bell barrow is correct. The mound is approximately 2.8m high. (8)
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