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The Excavation of Eighteen Round Barrows near Shrewton, Wiltshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Charles Green ,
Stephen Rollo-Smith ,
Elisabeth Crowfoot  and
Calvin Wells
Stephen Rollo-Smith
Affiliation:
For Trust for Wessex Archaeology, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire
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The excavation of eighteen round barrows was undertaken by the late Charles Green during summer seasons from 1958 to 1960, in advance of their destruction by ploughing. The excavated barrows are members of two linear groups which occupy adjacent spurs to the east of the village of Shrewton in the modern parish of that name (fig. 1). One of the barrows investigated lies in Winterbourne Stoke parish. This western part of Salisbury Plain is termed the ‘Lower Plain’ comprising those areas having their ‘upper limit… between 400 and 450 feet OD and their lower limit where they overlook the valley trenches … between 250 and 300 feet O.D.’ (Gifford 1957, 6). In such a lower valley lie the modern villages of Shrewton and Rollestone, and through it flows the river Till, the nearest modern open water supply to the barrows. This connects the area to the River Avon via the Wylye and Nadder.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , December 1984 , pp. 255 - 318
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1984

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