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Latitude: 51.245 / 51°14'42"N
Longitude: -1.709 / 1°42'32"W
OS Eastings: 420409.086504
OS Northings: 149579.629846
OS Grid: SU204495
Mapcode National: GBR 4Z7.SWP
Mapcode Global: VHC2G.BYDY
Entry Name: Two of three round barrows south-west of Sun Plantation
Scheduled Date: 29 July 1965
Last Amended: 7 February 1990
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1010105
English Heritage Legacy ID: 10181
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Tidworth
Built-Up Area: Tidworth
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Figheldean St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
The scheduled area contains two bowl barrows. Both are low but still in quite
good condition despite being crossed by vehicles.
1 - A bowl barrow 12m overall diameter. (SU20404958)
2 - A bowl barrow 10m overall diameter. (SU20414957)
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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