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infantry regiment. Many Bronze Age items were found, with a smaller quantity from the Neolithic period. Many Saxon graves were uncovered, together with items including a bucket-shaped drinking vessel, made from pieces of yew wood bound together with bronze. Finds are held by the
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about 30 metres in diameter. Other barrows in the same group have been lost to ploughing. The barrow was constructed in the early
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Permission was granted for full excavation in 2012–2014 in order to record the site, which was being extensively damaged by
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Barrow Clump lies on the northwestern slope of rising ground about 700 metres east of the village of
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were carried out in the 19th century, in the early 20th century by Lt Col
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settlement, and much later, around the 6th century, it was re-used as an
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The site was designated as a scheduled monument in 1990.
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51°13′16″N 1°45′50″W / 51.221°N 1.764°W / 51.221; -1.764
archaeological site
Figheldean
Amesbury
scheduled monument
Ablington
Figheldean
bowl barrow
Bronze Age
Neolithic
Anglo-Saxon
excavations
William Hawley
English Heritage
badgers
Defence Infrastructure Organisation
Wessex Archaeology
The Rifles
Wiltshire Museum
Time Team
series 20
Channel 4
BBC Four
Digging for Britain
"1:25,000 map of Ablington, Wiltshire"



Historic England

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