Details

The monument includes a bowl barrow located on a downland spur 800m west of
Airman's Corner on Winterbourne Stoke Down.
The barrow is visible as an oval mound 0.3m high, the extent of which is
now difficult to determine on the ground. However, surrounding the mound is a
ditch from which material was quarried during its construction. This has
become infilled over the years and survives as a buried feature visible on
aerial photographs from which its overall diameter is calculated to be 20m at
its widest point.

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.

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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.

Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrows, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occuring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations they are a
major historic element in the modern landscape. Their considerable variation
of form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the
variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early prehistoric
communities. They are particularly representative of their period and a
substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.
Despite its reduced height, the bowl barrow on Winterbourne Stoke Down will
contain archaeological remains and environmental evidence relating to the
monument and the landscape in which it was contructed.

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Sources

Books and journals
Hoare, R C, Ancient History of Wiltshire, (1812), 117

Source: Historic England