Details

The constraint area contains an unusual group of three barrows. One is a bowl
barrow, one a pond barrow and one either a "short" long barrow (without traces
of side ditches) or two confluent bowl barrows.
1 - A bowl barrow c.30m overall diameter in thick woodland. (SU21164661)
2 - A pond barrow with an overal diameter of c.32m. (SU21214664)
3 - A bowl barrow originally listed as a long barrow, then as two confluent
bowl barrows. It has the appearance of a "short" long barrow but no side
ditches are evident. It is orientated south-east/north-west with a length of
c.35m and a width of c.25m (SU21254664)

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.

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