Multiple trackway south of Bulford Camp
Overview
Heritage Category: Scheduled Monument
List Entry Number: 1009613
Date first listed: 24-Jan-1962
Date of most recent amendment: 13-Mar-1990
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Location
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District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Amesbury
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Bulford
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Cholderton
National Grid Reference: SU 18717 42438, SU 19506 42428
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.
Droveways and trackways are well represented in the Salisbury Plain
Training Area, where they provide communications between individual
settlements and link occupation areas with their fields. The trackways
are frequently cut down below the level of the surrounding fields,
while the related form of the holloway was often used to mark the
boundary between neighbouring estates.
History
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Details
Multiple trackways running up and along a hill ridge. The most substantial
trackway south of the road, is damaged by motor-bikes and scrub. It consists
of a ditch with a bank to the south and traces of one to the north, overall
width c.11m.
MAP EXTRACT
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Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 10256
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