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Winterbourne Stoke Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery comprising five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows situated on the chalk downland near the village of Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire. The barrows date primarily to the Bronze Age, representing a concentration of burial monuments that illustrate the funerary practices and settlement patterns of prehistoric communities across several centuries. The bowl barrows are characterised by their distinctive hemispherical mounds, whilst the saucer barrows display the flatter, wider profile typical of their form. Together, these seven monuments constitute an important archaeological complex that demonstrates the significance of this downland location as a focus for ritual and burial activity during the prehistoric period.
Five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows forming a round barrow cemetery on Winterbourne Stoke Down is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011047. View the official record →
Winterbourne Stoke Down is a Neolithic and Bronze Age round barrow cemetery comprising five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows situated on the chalk downland near the village of Winterbourne Stoke in Wiltshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011047.
Five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows forming a round barrow cemetery on Winterbourne Stoke Down is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1011047.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Heale Hill round barrows and earthworks (5.4 km), Ancient cultivation terraces (5.5 km), Earthwork W of Woodford Clump (6.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows forming a round barrow cemetery on Winterbourne Stoke Down's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Five bowl barrows and two saucer barrows forming a round barrow cemetery on Winterbourne Stoke Down stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.