Two of a group of round barrows on Silk Hill
Overview
Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number: 1009541
Date first listed: 27-Jan-1965
Date of most recent amendment: 01-Feb-1990
Map
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Location
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District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Milston
National Grid Reference: SU 19196 46526
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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.
History
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Details
The scheduled area includes two small outlying barrows of the Silk Hill group.
1 - A ditched bowl barrow, c.19m overall diameter. (SU19194653)
2 - A bowl barrow with traces of ditch, c.18m overall diameter. (SU19204651)
MAP EXTRACT
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 10151
Legacy System: RSM
Sources
Other
Trust for Wessex Archaeology, (1987)
Wiltshire Library & Museum Service, (1987)
Legal
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
End of official listing