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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Amesbury 39 Bowl BarrowCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Amesbury
Map Ref: SU13154204
Latitude: 51.177446N Longitude: 1.813264W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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SolarMegalith visited on 25th Nov 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 4
A Bronze Age bowl barrow listed as Amesbury 39 is partly cut by the road and heavily mutilated. The excavations carried out in 1960 unearthed sherds of Windmill Hill ware, Peterborough ware and Grooved ware. Currently the mound is about 0,5 m high.
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