Details

A large bell barrow and a large disc barrow previously damaged by roads, now
well kept within an army camp.
1 - A bell barrow first described as a bowl barrow, 46m overall diameter
(mound 28m diameter, ditch 6m wide, outer bank 3m wide). The berm survives on
the west side but the north and east sides are destroyed by roads.
(SU19154329)
2 - A disc barrow, 59m overall diameter (mound 11m diameter, berm 12m wide,
ditch 7m wide, outerbank 5m wide). Although there is old digging and the bank
is cut in the north by a road this barrow is in a good condition. (SU19224327)

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