<< Our Photo Pages >> Winterbourne Stoke - Barrow Cemetery in England in Wiltshire
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StonehengeSite Name: Winterbourne StokeCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Salisbury Nearest Village: Amesbury
Map Ref: SU10174171 Landranger Map Number: 184
Latitude: 51.174539N Longitude: 1.855904W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3.5
The former built the English long barrows, noted for the multiple human burials found inside them; men, women and children. One of the easiest to see from a major road is next to the Winterbourne Stoke crossroads (now roundabout).
Also in view are a large number of Bronze Age round barrows of various varieties. On the bigger images it is possible to make out bowl barrows, bell barrows and disc barrows (all fairly self-explanatory in shape). I have read there are 27 - try counting them! Eleven of them are roughly aligned with the long barrow.
Each round barrow has only one burial (sometime two). This suggests that between what we call Neolithic and Bronze Age periods there was a change in society towards honouring individual chieftains, as it is clear from the number of round barrows that only a few of the population were buried in one. What happened to everyone else is not known! Five of the round barrows are very early (2100BC), and contain inhumations (burials) rather than the later cremations. It is clear that the area around the abandoned long barrow remained sacred for thousands of years.
As an aside, on the subject of barrows in Wiltshire, bone flutes have been found in round barrows at Avebury and Normanton .
Access: The dual carriageway in the top picture is the A303. There is a layby in which you can park just to the east of the roundabout, from where a signposted path through the wood takes you to the barrow cemetery.
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