| Site name / number: | Woodford 2 |
| Abbreviation: | WOO2 |
| Name: | - |
| Parish / Grinsell number: | Woodford 2 |
| Subform: | Short long barrow? |
| Hoare number: | - |
| Wiltshire HER Number: | SU 13 NW 151 |
| National Monument Record number: | SU 13 NW13 |
| Scheduled Monument number: | Unscheduled |
| Within the WHS?: | N |
| Length (m): | 20 |
| Width (m): | 14 |
| Height (m): | 0 |
| Ditch width (m): | 4 |
| Orientation: | N-S |
| Excavated?: | Y |
| Focus of mound features: | ? |
| Visible from Stonehenge?: | N |
| Associated with round barrows?: | N |
| Ditch form: | Side ditches only, continuous. |
| Postholes in ditches: | - |
| Internal pits: | Several, though function unclear. |
| Internal postholes: | Series of postholes postdating pits but predating barrow mound, the excavator suggests that these may represent a small trapezoidal mortuary structure. |
| Internal cairn or stones: | Sub-rectangular flint cairn. |
| OS Grid Reference: | SU 1007 3772 |
| British National Grid X coordinate: | 410070 |
| British National Grid Y coordinate: | 137720 |
| Latitude: | 51.13866300 |
| Longitude: | -1.85744440 |
| 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; Harding, P. and Gingell, C., 1986. The excavation of two long barrows by F de M and HFWL Vatcher. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 80: 7-22. |
| Plan reference: | Harding and Gingell (1986), Figure 7. |
| Radiocarbon date: |
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