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WINTERBOURNE STOKE 4 (GODDARD)

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A large Bronze Age bell barrow survives as earthworks within the main alignment of the Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads round barrow cemetery (Monument Number 219525). It has an overall diameter of 55.5m and comprises a large circular mound, 3.7m high, of at least two phases, which sits on a circular platform defined by an irregular ring ditch. The ditch is overlain to the south-west by Winterbourne Stoke 3a (Monument Number 370374) and abuts that around Winterbourne Stoke 5 (Monument Number 870392) to the north-east. A hollow in the summit is probably from early 19th century excavations for Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who found a primary cremation in a clay-covered elm and/or oak box (Barrow 15: 1812). The box also contained a bronze dagger, a bronze knife-dagger, bone tweezers, a bone pin and 2 fragments of sheet bronze. Five intrusive skeletons, though to be Anglo-Saxon, were also found in the mound. The ditch and berm are overlaid by linear banks probably representing fence lines. The round barrow was listed as Winterbourne Stoke 4 by Goddard (1913) and by Grinsell (1957). The round barrow was mapped from aerial photographs at a scale of 1:10,000 as part of the RCHME: Salisbury Plain Training Area NMP project and this mapping revised at a scale of 1:2500 for the English Heritage Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. The round barrow was surveyed at a scale of 1:1000 in August 2009 as part of English Heritage's Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project.

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