| Site name / number: | Figheldean 31 |
| Abbreviation: | FIG31 |
| Name: | Alton Down |
| Parish / Grinsell number: | Figheldean 31 |
| Subform: | Long barrow |
| Hoare number: | - |
| Wiltshire HER Number: | SU 14 NW 108 |
| National Monument Record number: | SU 14 NW 5 |
| Scheduled Monument number: | 10125 |
| Within the WHS?: | N |
| Length (m): | 45 |
| Width (m): | 15 |
| Height (m): | 0.69 |
| Ditch width (m): | 7.5 |
| Orientation: | NW-SE |
| 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: | 1 |
| Internal postholes: | - |
| Internal cairn or stones: | 3 sarsens lie in ditch but no record of formal excavation. |
| OS Grid Reference: | SU 1089 4588 |
| British National Grid X coordinate: | 410890 |
| British National Grid Y coordinate: | 145880 |
| Latitude: | 51.2120219 |
| Longitude: | -1.8454792 |
| 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; McOmish, D, Field, D and Brown, G (2002) The Field Archaeology of the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Swindon: English Heritage. |
| Plan reference: | McOmish et al. (2002), Fig 2.8, E |
| Radiocarbon date: |
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