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MONUMENT NO. 765528

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Bronze Age saucer barrow listed by Grinsell as Winterbourne Stoke 63a. It is part of the Winterbourne Stoke (West) 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 4) who recorded no finds or structures. Field investigations in 1974 found the mound to have a diameter of 6 metres and a height of 0.2 metres. The outer ditch was 3 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep, there was no surveyable outer bank. The barrow was also included in a survey by RCHME field staff in 1992. The earthwork remains of this Bronze Age saucer 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 07684199) Winterbourne Stoke 63a: A saucer barrow, mound diameter 19', height 1/2'; ditch width 7', depth 1/4'; outer bank width 7', height 1/4' (1) Excavated by Colt Hoare, 1809 (Barrow 4), no structure or finds, commented `this probably was not intended for a barrow' (2)

(SU 07684199) Winterbourne Stoke 63a. A saucer barrow: mound 6m in diameter, 0.2m high; outer ditch 3m diameter, 0.4m deep, with no surveyable outer bank. (3)

Originally recorded as Winterbourne Stoke 63a by Goddard. (4)

The earthwork remains of the Bronze Age saucer barrow described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SU 0768 4199. 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. Ten of these (inlcluding this barrow) lie within an embanked enclosure known as The Coniger, a Medieval rabbit warren enclosure. (5-6)

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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)224

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

Page(s)113

(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)368

(5) General reference

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

(6) General reference

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

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