Airmans Corner, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire: Investigation of Earthworks
Author(s): David J Field
Inspection of four fields centred on Airman's Corner, Winterbourne Stoke, Wiltshire revealed a cultivated landscape where traces of earlier activity had for the most part long been levelled. On the fringe of the north-west quandrant lies a round barrow which is part of a cemetery of nine others that lie just beyond the area, while to the south-east a square pond is situated in the bottom of a dry valley. Other shallow amorphous deposits are difficult to interpret and could be the result of natural as much as human activity. Aerial photographs provide evidence of widespread ancient cultivation on the slopes of Winterbourne Stoke Down, while a levelled linear ditch, probably of Later Bronze Age date, appears to cut diagonally across the area.
- Report Number:
- 40/2009
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 12
- Keywords:
- Prehistoric
