Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project, Normanton Down: Archaeological Survey Report
Author(s): Kate Barrett, Mark Bowden
The Normanton Down Barrow Group is one of the most prominent Neolithic and Bronze Age cemeteries in the Stonehenge environs, occupying an east-west ridge to the south of Stonehenge itself. It includes long barrows, bowl, bell and disc barrows, amongst them the famous Bush Barrow and several other mounds containing rich burials which helped to define the ‘Wessex Culture’. Unfortunately, extensive arable agriculture in the later 20th century has not only damaged some of the barrows but levelled other historic features of the landscape, including linear ditches, former field boundaries and a dew pond. Though access was restricted much of the Group was surveyed as part of the Stonehenge WHS Landscape Project in 2010.
- Report Number:
- 90/2010
- Series:
- Research Department Reports
- Pages:
- 48
- Keywords:
- Bronze Age Landscape Park Neolithic Survey Analytical Landscape Survey
