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Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial landscape situated in Wiltshire comprising several round barrows of varying sizes distributed across the archaeological site. The cemetery forms part of the significant concentration of prehistoric burial monuments in the Stonehenge landscape, reflecting the ritual and funerary practices of Bronze Age communities in this region. The site includes The Coniger enclosure and associated linear boundary earthwork, features that defined and organised the ritual landscape during the Bronze Age period. These monuments, preserved as earthwork remains, represent important evidence of the ceremonial and territorial organisation of Bronze Age Wessex society.
Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery, The Coniger enclosure and section of linear boundary earthwork is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015019. View the official record →
Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery is a Bronze Age burial landscape situated in Wiltshire comprising several round barrows of varying sizes distributed across the archaeological site. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015019.
Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery, The Coniger enclosure and section of linear boundary earthwork 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 1015019.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ancient cultivation terraces (6.3 km), Earthwork W of Woodford Clump (6.8 km), Newton Barrow (6.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery, The Coniger enclosure and section of linear boundary earthwork's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Winterbourne Stoke West round barrow cemetery, The Coniger enclosure and section of linear boundary earthwork stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.