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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: King Barrow (Amesbury) Alternative Name: Coneybury Hill BarrowCountry: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Amesbury Nearest Village: West Amesbury
Map Ref: SU13554137
Latitude: 51.171413N Longitude: 1.807567W
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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Barrow Cemetery in Wiltshire
(SU 13554137) Tumulus (AT). (1)
Amesbury 23. "King Barrow", a bowl barrow 99 ft in diameter and 10 ft high. According to Stukeley, 'a very large brass weapon of twenty pounds weight, like a pole-axe' was found in it in 1722,? an all bronze halberd, as from Leubingen. A whetstone about 12 inches long from the barrow is in Salisbury Museum. (2)
Amesbury 23. A bowl barrow 3.9m high; slightly oval probably because of ploughing. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)
Originally recorded as Amesbury 23 by Goddard. (4) The finds, a flanged axe, hone, dagger and two shale cups are thought to have come from this barrow. They were part of the Job Edwards Collection presented to Salisbury Museum in 1898. (5)
SU 13544139. King Barrow scheduling amended. (7)
The barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs, and has been mapped by both RCHME's Salisbury Plain Training area NMP and EH's Stonehenge WHS Mapping Project. (8-9)
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