 View of Wilsford South 41 long barrow, located towards the south-western end of the small copse of trees on Wilford Down. It stands towards the eastern end of a ridge of land that would later become the focus of a Bronze Age barrow cemetery with twenty two round barrows constructed nearby on its north-eastern slopes. |
| PS: A Neolithic long barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford (South) 41, and forming part of the Lake group of barrows (SU 14 SW 51). The barrow does not appear to have been excavated, and is extant as an earthwork 45m long and 25m wide. The mound has a maximum height of 3.5 metres at the SE but up to 4.8m at the NW, suggesting the possibility of a secondary mound on the summit; the well-defined side ditches are up to 9.3m wide and 1m deep. RCH: No. 1 is a long barrow, situated at the south-west extremity of the group, and like many others of a similar form has not been opened, as they have in general proven so uniform in their modes of sepulture, and so very unproductive in articles of curiosity. |
 Looking east from the path at a prominent round barrow that lies on the western edge of the copse. |
| PS: Bronze Age bell or bowl barrow, listed by Grinsell as Wilsford 42, and part of the Lake Group of barrows recorded as SU 14 SW 51. Excavated in the early 19th century by Colt Hoare, who found a primary cremation with a bronze awl, a red glass bead, a bone bead and a bronze dagger. All but the awl and the glass bead are lost. The barrow is extant as an earthwork mound 3.5 metres high surrounded by a ditch and, possibly, a berm. RCH: No. 7 is a large bell-shaped barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth. It contained, within a cist, a little pile of burned bones, with which had been deposited a very fine brass pin, a large stone bead which had been stained red, a bead of ivory, and a lance-head of brass, PLATE XXX. No. 3, 4. 42. (7) Large bell-shaped barrow on N. edge of plantation, opened by Hoare. Cist with burnt bones, bronze knife dagger, large awl, and " large stone bead and bead of ivory." O.M. 60 NW. ; A. W. I. 210 PI. XXX. : Stourhead Cat. 174a, 174c. [Condition good, but bank of plantation cuts through ditch of barrow, 1912. M.E.C.]. |
