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Site name / number: Figheldean 27
Abbreviation: FIG27
Name: Knighton Down
Parish / Grinsell number: Figheldean 27
Subform: Long barrow
Hoare number: -
Wiltshire HER Number: SU 14 NW 102
National Monument Record number: SU 14 SW23
Scheduled Monument number: 10132
Within the WHS?: N
Length (m): 55
Width (m): 21
Height (m): 3
Ditch width (m): 6.5
Orientation: W-E
Excavated?: Y
Focus of mound features: ?
Visible from Stonehenge?: Y
Associated with round barrows?: N
Ditch form: Side ditches only, continuous.
Postholes in ditches: -
Internal pits: -
Internal postholes: -
Internal cairn or stones: -
OS Grid Reference: SU 1279 4535
British National Grid X coordinate: 412790
British National Grid Y coordinate: 145350
Latitude: 50.9300819
Longitude: -1.8195200
References: 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
Plan reference: McOmish et al. (2002), Fig 2.8, F
Radiocarbon date:

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