| Site name / number: | Winterbourne Stoke 53 |
| Abbreviation: | WIN53 |
| Name: | - |
| Parish / Grinsell number: | Winterbourne Stoke 53 |
| Subform: | Long barrow |
| Hoare number: | - |
| Wiltshire HER Number: | SU 04 SE 100 |
| National Monument Record number: | SU 04 SE 33 |
| Scheduled Monument number: | 1015021 |
| Within the WHS?: | N |
| Length (m): | 36 |
| Width (m): | 18 |
| Height (m): | 1.7 |
| Ditch width (m): | Unknown - levelled. |
| Orientation: | W-E |
| Excavated?: | Y |
| Focus of mound features: | E |
| Visible from Stonehenge?: | N |
| Associated with round barrows?: | N |
| Ditch form: | Side ditches only, form uncertain as levelled by time of RCHME survey. |
| Postholes in ditches: | - |
| Internal pits: | - |
| Internal postholes: | - |
| Internal cairn or stones: | Small cairn, 1.2-1.5m across, 0.6m high on a raised burnt 'floor' of flints and burnt bones in a chalk marl matrix. |
| OS Grid Reference: | SU 0916 4279 |
| British National Grid X coordinate: | 409160 |
| British National Grid Y coordinate: | 142790 |
| Latitude: | 51.18426699 |
| Longitude: | -1.8703239 |
| 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; RCHME (unpub) 'Long barrow, Winterbourne Stoke Down; Archive itm 919885'. |
| Plan reference: | RCHME Unpub. Historic England Archive numbers are 832847 for the plan and 919885 for the report. |
| Radiocarbon date: |
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