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Site name / number: Wilsford 30
Abbreviation: WIL30
Name: -
Parish / Grinsell number: Wilsford 30
Subform: Long barrow
Hoare number: 173
Wiltshire HER Number: SU 14 SW 129
National Monument Record number: SU 14 SW 95
Scheduled Monument number: 10327
Within the WHS?: Y
Length (m): 43
Width (m): 20
Height (m): 2.30
Ditch width (m): 4
Orientation: W-E
Excavated?: Y
Focus of mound features: E
Visible from Stonehenge?: N
Associated with round barrows?: Uncertain
Ditch form: Northern side ditch only — southern eroded by ploughing?
Postholes in ditches: -
Internal pits: -
Internal postholes: -
Internal cairn or stones: -
OS Grid Reference: SU 1141 4106
British National Grid X coordinate: 411410
British National Grid Y coordinate: 141060
Latitude: 51.16867100
Longitude: -1.8381864
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; Barrett, K and Bowden, M (2010) The Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project; Normanton Down; Archaeological Survey Report; English Heritage Research Reports Series 90 — 2010; Bowden M, Soutar S, Field D and Barber M. 2015. The Stonehenge Landscape; Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Historic England, Swindon.
Plan reference: Barrett and Bowden (2010), Figures 5 and 18.
Radiocarbon date:

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