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Latitude: 51.2134 / 51°12'48"N
Longitude: -1.6906 / 1°41'26"W
OS Eastings: 421709.406499
OS Northings: 146071.845053
OS Grid: SU217460
Mapcode National: GBR 4ZM.Z9H
Mapcode Global: VHC2N.NR4N
Entry Name: Round barrow east of Milston Down
Scheduled Date: 16 March 1966
Last Amended: 13 March 1990
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1009651
English Heritage Legacy ID: 10192
County: Hampshire
Civil Parish: Shipton Bellinger
Built-Up Area: Shipton Bellinger
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Milston with Brigmerston St Mary
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
A bowl barrow with traces of a ditch c.20m overall diameter. Covered by
undergrowth and damaged by rabbits and some army activity.
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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