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Latitude: 51.2178 / 51°13'4"N
Longitude: -1.837 / 1°50'13"W
OS Eastings: 411477.384561
OS Northings: 146521.693003
OS Grid: SU114465
Mapcode National: GBR 3Y3.QBZ
Mapcode Global: VHB54.3NP9
Entry Name: Round barrow east-north-east of Wood's Butt
Scheduled Date: 16 March 1966
Last Amended: 31 January 1990
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1009522
English Heritage Legacy ID: 10131
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Shrewton
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Netheravon All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
A bowl barrow c.24m overall diameter, with a ditch that is no longer
traceable. Military damage has occured in recent years.
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Source: Historic England
The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland
archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury
Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain
Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant
archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of
special significance because they differ in character from those in
other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites on
Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well.
Some 470 round barrows, funerary monuments dating to the late Neolithic
and early Bronze Age, are known to have existed in the Salisbury Plain
Training Area, many grouped together as cemeteries. The total includes
some 70 barrows of rare types. Such is the quality of the survival of
the archaeological landscape, over 300 of these barrows have been
identified as nationally important.
Source: Historic England
Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)
Source: Historic England
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