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MONUMENT NO. 765295

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Bronze Age bowl barrow listed by Grinsell as Winterbourne Stoke 63b. It is part of the Winterbourne Stoke Barrow Cemetery and is situated within the Medieval enclosure The Coniger (SU 04 SE 83). The barrow was excavated by Colt Hoare in 1809 (barrow number 6) who recorded a cremation and a miniature cup which is in Devizes Museum, accession number 173. Field investigations in 1974 located a ditched bowl barrow 15 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. The ditch was 0.3 metres deep and destroyed on the east side. The barrow was also included in a survey by RCHME field staff in 1992. The earthwork remains of this Bronze Age bowl barrow were mapped at 1:10,000 scale as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project, and subsequently revised for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project.

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(SU 07674197) Winterbourne Stoke 64b, ditched bowl barrow, 18 paces in diameter, 3ft high (1). Excavated by Colt Hoare, 1809 (Barrow No. 6) Located a primary cremation with a `rude little cup resembling a saucer' (2)

(SU 07604196) Winterborne Stoke 64b- a ditched bowl barrow, mound 15m. diameter, 0.6m high; ditch 0.3m deep, destroyed on east side. (3)

The pot- a miniature cup with twisted chord impressions, present in Devizes Museum, Acc. no. 173 (4)

Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 64b by Goddard (5)

The earthwork remains of the Bronze Age bowl barrow described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SU 0766 4197. It was mapped at 1:10,000 scale as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project, and subsequently revised at 1:2500 scale for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. This barrow was recorded collectively with twelve other barrows in NMR record SU04SE 83 as a barrow cemetery. Eleven of these (inlcluding this barrow) lie within an embanked enclosure known as The Coniger, a Medieval rabbit warren enclosure. (6-7)

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(1) edited by R B Pugh and Elizabeth Crittall 1957 A history of Wiltshire: volume 1, part 1

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)203

(2) by Sir Richard Colt Hoare; introduction by Jack Simmons and D D A Simpson 1975 The ancient history of Wiltshire

Page(s)113-114

(3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 PAS 12-Dec-1974

(4) General reference

Neolithic and Bronze Age Antiquities. Devizes Museum, 1964, 59 no.439 (K. Annable, D.D.A Simpson)

(5) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

(E H Goddard) 38, 1913-14 Page(s)368

(6) General reference

RAF CPE/UK/1821 2284 04-NOV-1946

(7) General reference

NMR SU 0742/14-15 (1831/159-16-) 25-JUL-1980

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A barrow cemetery comprising twelve barrows, nine of which are enclosed by The Coniger (SU 04 SE 83) a Medieval enclosure. The cemetery includes examp...

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