| Site name / number: | Amesbury 7 |
| Abbreviation: | AM7 |
| Name: | - |
| Parish / Grinsell number: | Amesbury 7 |
| Subform: | Oval barrow |
| Hoare number: | 21 |
| Wiltshire HER Number: | SU 14 SW 730 |
| National Monument Record number: | SU 14 SW 399 |
| Scheduled Monument number: | 10368 |
| Within the WHS?: | Y |
| Length (m): | 18 |
| Width (m): | 12 |
| Height (m): | 0.2 |
| Ditch width (m): | 2 |
| Orientation: | NNW-SSE |
| Excavated?: | Y |
| Focus of mound features: | - |
| Visible from Stonehenge?: | Y |
| Associated with round barrows?: | Y |
| Ditch form: | Southern end causewayed, otherwise continuous all way round on magnetometry and earthworks, though GPR suggests some segmentation, albeit slight. Suggestion of burning in ditch due to high intensity magnetometry response in comparison to other barrows in group, and similar width and depth of ditch from GPR to other barrows in the group. |
| Postholes in ditches: | - |
| Internal pits: | - |
| Internal postholes: | - |
| Internal cairn or stones: | - |
| OS Grid Reference: | SU 1194 4217 |
| British National Grid X coordinate: | 411940 |
| British National Grid Y coordinate: | 142170 |
| Latitude: | 51.1786420 |
| Longitude: | -1.8305695 |
| 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; Field, D and Pearson, T (2011) Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project; Stonehenge Down and the Triangle; Archaeological Survey Report. English Heritage Research Reports Series 105-2011. Portsmouth, English Heritage; Field, D, Linford, N, Barber, M, Anderson-Whymark, H, Bowden, M, Topping, P, Linford, P (2014) 'Analytical Surveys of Stonehenge and its Environs, 2009-2013; Part 1: the Landscape and Earthworks', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 80, 1-32; Bowden M, Soutar S, Field D and Barber M. 2015. The Stonehenge Landscape; Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Historic England, Swindon. |
| Plan reference: | Field, D and Pearson, T (2011), Figure 5. |
| Radiocarbon date: | - |
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