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Latitude: 51.1978 / 51°11'51"N
Longitude: -1.7041 / 1°42'14"W
OS Eastings: 420774.071478
OS Northings: 144325.225601
OS Grid: SU207443
Mapcode National: GBR 4ZT.VBP
Mapcode Global: VHC2V.D5Z3
Entry Name: Three of a dispersed group of barrows on Beacon Hill/Bulford Down
Scheduled Date: 27 January 1965
Last Amended: 8 March 1990
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1009887
English Heritage Legacy ID: 10275
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Bulford
Built-Up Area: Bulford Camp
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Bulford St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
The constraint area contains three bowl barrows. They all have some military
damage.
1 - A bowl barrow with traces of a ditch, c.26m overall diameter. It has now
been damaged by the military. (SU20764432)
2 - A small bowl barrow c.9m overall diameter. It has now been damaged by the
military. (SU20784431)
3 - A bowl barrow with slight traces of a ditch, overall diameter c.26m.
(SU20794434)
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
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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