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A group of six barrows east of Newfoundland Farm Wood

A Scheduled Monument in Shrewton, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2288 / 51°13'43"N

Longitude: -1.8433 / 1°50'35"W

OS Eastings: 411035.037232

OS Northings: 147743.785584

OS Grid: SU110477

Mapcode National: GBR 3XX.W8F

Mapcode Global: VHB54.0CCV

Entry Name: A group of six barrows east of Newfoundland Farm Wood

Scheduled Date: 16 March 1966

Last Amended: 12 February 1990

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1009526

English Heritage Legacy ID: 10128

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Shrewton

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Netheravon All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

Details

A group of six small bowl barrows now all low and covered by scrub and long
grass making them hard to locate.
1 - A small bowl barrow c.9m overall diameter. It is very low and covered in
long grass, the centre may be hollow. (SU11034777)
2 - A small bowl barrow 8m diameter in rough pasture. (SU11024774)
3 - A small bowl barrow c.7m overall diameter. (SU11054774)
4 - A small bowl barrow c.7m overall diameter. (SU11034775)
5 - A very small bowl barrow now not identifiable under scrub. (SU11034774)
6 - A small bowl barrow c.6m diameter, now under long grass. (SU11034772)

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Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

The most complete and extensive survival of chalk downland
archaeological remains in central southern England occurs on Salisbury
Plain, particularly in those areas lying within the Salisbury Plain
Training Area. These remains represent one of the few extant
archaeological "landscapes" in Britain and are considered to be of
special significance because they differ in character from those in
other areas with comparable levels of preservation. Individual sites on
Salisbury Plain are seen as being additionally important because the
evidence of their direct association with each other survives so well.

Some 470 round barrows, funerary monuments dating to the late Neolithic
and early Bronze Age, are known to have existed in the Salisbury Plain
Training Area, many grouped together as cemeteries. The total includes
some 70 barrows of rare types. Such is the quality of the survival of
the archaeological landscape, over 300 of these barrows have been
identified as nationally important.

Source: Historic England

Sources

Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)

Source: Historic England

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