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Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill

A Scheduled Monument in Milston, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2213 / 51°13'16"N

Longitude: -1.7324 / 1°43'56"W

OS Eastings: 418786.407838

OS Northings: 146938.858276

OS Grid: SU187469

Mapcode National: GBR 4ZL.6W8

Mapcode Global: VHB55.XKJL

Entry Name: Bell barrow: one of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill

Scheduled Date: 16 March 1966

Last Amended: 31 January 1990

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1009695

English Heritage Legacy ID: 10145

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Milston

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Milston with Brigmerston St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Details

A bell barrow c.51m overall diameter (mound, berm and ditch), damaged on the
south side by ploughing. A primary cremation excavated in the 19th century can
probably be attributed to this barrow. Three skeletons are recorded as having
been found in 1941.

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

Reasons for Scheduling

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

Sources

Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)

Source: Historic England

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