| Site name / number: | Winterbourne Stoke 1 |
| Abbreviation: | WS1 |
| Name: | - |
| Parish / Grinsell number: | Winterbourne Stoke 1 |
| Subform: | Long barrow |
| Hoare number: | 1 |
| Wiltshire HER Number: | SU 14 SW 125 |
| National Monument Record number: | SU 14 SW 92 |
| Scheduled Monument number: | 10462 |
| Within the WHS?: | Y |
| Length (m): | 84 |
| Width (m): | 27 |
| Height (m): | 3 |
| Ditch width (m): | 12 |
| Orientation: | NE-SW |
| Excavated?: | Y |
| Focus of mound features: | NE |
| Visible from Stonehenge?: | N |
| Associated with round barrows?: | Y |
| Ditch form: | Side ditches only and continuous — NW much larger than SE, which is heavily damaged. |
| Postholes in ditches: | - |
| Internal pits: | 3 |
| Internal postholes: | - |
| Internal cairn or stones: | - |
| OS Grid Reference: | SU 1000 4151 |
| British National Grid X coordinate: | 410000 |
| British National Grid Y coordinate: | 141510 |
| Latitude: | 51.17274400 |
| Longitude: | -1.85834079 |
| References: | Thurnham, J (1868) 'On Ancient British Barrows, especially those of Wiltshire and the adjoining Counties (Part I. — Long Barrows)' Archaeologia 42 (1), 161-244; 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; Bax, S, Bowden, M C B, Komar, A S, Newsome, S (2010) Stonehenge World Heritage Site Landscape Project; Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads; Archaeological Survey Report. English Heritage Research Reports Series 107-2010. Portsmouth, English Heritage; Bowden M, Soutar S, Field D and Barber M. 2015. The Stonehenge Landscape; Analysing the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. Historic England, Swindon. |
| Plan reference: | Bax et al. (2010), Figure 2. |
| Radiocarbon date: |
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