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MONUMENT NO. 765496

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Bronze Age disc barrow listed by Grinsell as Winterbourne Stoke 67. It is part of the Winterbourne Stoke (West) Barrow Cemetery and has been partially destroyed by the Medieval enclosure, The Coniger (SU 04 SE 83). Tyhe barrow was excavated by Colt Hoare in 1809 (Barrow number 10) who recorded a primary cremation wrapped in cloth with a bronze pin, shale rings and amber beads under an inverted pot. Field investigations in 1974 located a mound 8 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. The berm was 4 metres wide; the ditch and outer bank 6 metres wide, 0.4 metres deep and 0.3 metres high. The barrow was also included in a survey carried out by RCHME field staff in 1992. The earthwork remains of this Bronze Age disc 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 07764197) Winterbourne Stoke 67, disc barrow; mound, diameter 30', height 2': berm width 18'; ditch width 12', depth 1/2'; outer bank width 12', height 1/2'. Damaged by outer earthwork. (1) Excavated by Colt Hoare (Barrow 10). Located a primary cremation wrapped within cloth with a bronze pin, shale rings and beads under an inverted urn (2). One of the beads is a Type 6 (Beck and Shennan) amber bead. (5)

(SU 07754197) Winterbourne Stoke 67, a disc barrow partially destroyed by the enclosure. Mound 8m in diameter, 0.6m high; berm 4m wide; ditch with outer bank 6m wide, 0.4m deep and 0.3m high. (3)

Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 67 by Goddard. (4)

The earthwork remains of the Bronze Age disc barrow described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SU 0775 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 (excluding this barrow) lie within an embanked Medieval enclosure known as The Coniger. (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)221

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

Page(s)114

(3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 PAS 12-Dec-1974

(4) The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine

(E H Goddard) 38, 1913-14 Page(s)369

(5) General reference

Oxbow Monograph 8, 1991, 182-3 (C. Beck, S. Shennan)

(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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