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Site name / number: Amesbury 14
Abbreviation: AM14
Name: -
Parish / Grinsell number: Amesbury 14
Subform: Long barrow
Hoare number: 165
Wiltshire HER Number: SU 14 SW 127
National Monument Record number: SU 14 SW 91
Scheduled Monument number: 10313
Within the WHS?: Y
Length (m): 33
Width (m): 18
Height (m): 1.60
Ditch width (m): 8
Orientation: NNW-SSE
Excavated?: Y
Focus of mound features: SE
Visible from Stonehenge?: Y
Associated with round barrows?: Y
Ditch form: Side ditches only and continuous.
Postholes in ditches: -
Internal pits: -
Internal postholes: -
Internal cairn or stones: -
OS Grid Reference: SU 1154 4175
British National Grid X coordinate: 411540
British National Grid Y coordinate: 141750
Latitude: 51.174872999999998
Longitude: -1.8363052
References: Thurnham, J (1868) 'On Ancient British Barrows, especially those of Wiltshire and the adjoining Counties (Part I. — Long Barrows)' Archaeologia 42 (1), 161-244; Grinsell, L V (1957) 'Archaeological Gazetteer', in R B Pugh and E Crittall (eds) A History of Wiltshire. Volume 1, Part 1, 21–279. London, Oxford University Press; Wessex Archaeology (1993) A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down, Wiltshire — Alternative Routes.Unit Report number: W580. Grey Literature Report, Wessex Archaeology. Available at https://doi.org/10.5284/1008553; Field, D and Pearson, T (2011) Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project; Stonehenge Down and the Triangle; Archaeological Survey Report. English Heritage Research Reports Series 105-2011. Portsmouth, English Heritage; Field, D, Linford, N, Barber, M, Anderson-Whymark, H, Bowden, M, Topping, P, Linford, P (2014) 'Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009-2013; Part 1: the Landscape and Earthworks', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80, 1-32; Bowden M, Soutar S, Field D and Barber M. 2015. The Stonehenge Landscape; Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Historic England, Swindon.
Plan reference: Field, D and Pearson, T (2011), Figure 3.
Radiocarbon date: -

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