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<< Our Photo Pages >> Normanton Down - Barrow Cemetery in England in Wiltshire

Submitted by Horatio on Wednesday, 24 April 2024  Page Views: 14379

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Normanton Down
Country: England County: Wiltshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Salisbury  Nearest Village: Amesbury
Map Ref: SU118412  Landranger Map Number: 184
Latitude: 51.169922N  Longitude: 1.832604W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Horatio : Looking west towards Normanton Gorse and also the famous Bush barrow in the distance (Vote or comment on this photo)
The bronze age barrow cemetery south of Stonehenge, the other side of the A303. Including Early Bronze Age Beaker burials and the remains of a Neolithic long barrow.

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Note: Top photo: Looking west towards Normanton Gorse and also the famous Bush barrow in the distance. We have other recent photos on our other pages, browse the nearby sites list from this page
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Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Horatio : Showing the middle section of barrows on Normanton Down, (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Horatio : First trip to my second home (Stonehenge landscape) of the year and great to be back! In this view I have captured the eastern end of the ridge that this cemetery lies along, the reason mainly being that it was blowing a hooley and I was crazy to fly in this wind as it was let alone to fly high enough to capture all of it, so I did it in two sections to avoid any disasters with a very small and... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stonehenge from Normanton Down
Stonehenge from Normanton Down submitted by Camille1992 : Stonehenge from Normanton Down Barrow Cemetery (Vote or comment on this photo)

Normanton Down Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery
Normanton Down Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery submitted by Camille1992 : Normanton Down Bronze Age Barrow Cemetery (Vote or comment on this photo)

Normanton Down Long Barrow
Normanton Down Long Barrow submitted by dooclay : Looking back to the Barrow from the south

Normanton Down Long Barrow
Normanton Down Long Barrow submitted by dooclay : Looking South to the Longbarrow

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Antonine : From A303, 2009

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Antonine

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by Antonine : 2014

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons : The barrow cemetery photographed from the earth lane which bisects the site. April 2015 (1 comment)

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons : Distant barrow to the east of the main site. April 2015

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons : The barrow cemetery photographed from the earth lane which bisects the site. April 2015

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by DrewParsons : Bush Barrow seen from the earth track which runs just to the west of the barrow. April 2015

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by h_fenton : Part of Normanton Down Barrow Cemetery. The barrow with the small tree on close to the centre of the photograph is the famous Bush Barrow. Kite Aerial Photograph 2 June 2013

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by h_fenton : Part of Normanton Down Barrow Cemetery. Kite Aerial Photograph 2 June 2013

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by durhamnature : Gold bead from one of the barrows, from "Early Man in Britain" via archive.org

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : Stonehenge in the distance, viewed from near the chain of barrows running E-W, and the last part of the track heading approx N towards the A303. (3 comments)

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : Stonehenge in the distance during the walk on the permitted pathway from Coneybury Hill and Normanton Down to Stonehenge.

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : Stonehenge from Normanton Down, just near the junction of the very busy A303. With the large round barrow to SW of Stonehenge behind me, this view to NE lines up with the 'spine' of Stone 16 in the SW arc of the sarsen circle.

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : Nearly at the junction of the permitted pathway over Normanton Down with the A303, and looking back to the large round barrow to due SW of Stonehenge. (This is the one that I'm sure the Winter Solstice sun sets over.) Looking in the other direction it lines up nicely with the 'spine' of the outer face of Stone 16 in the SW arc of Stonehenge's outer sarsen ring.

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : The Normanton Down barrow that is due SW of Stonehenge, looms on the ridge to your left as you head north towards the A303.

Normanton Down
Normanton Down submitted by AngieLake : A zoom in to the southern side of the one I thought was Bush Barrow, to the east of that chain.

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 170m WNW 291° Bush Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU11644126)
 407m WSW 252° Normanton Down Long Barrow* Long Barrow (SU1141341071)
 610m NNW 335° North of Normanton Gorse Barrows* Barrow Cemetery (SU1154441754)
 973m WNW 287° Pond Barrow and Wilsford Shaft Round Barrow(s) (SU1086441475)
 1.1km NNE 24° Stonehenge.* Stone Circle (SU1224742194)
 1.2km NNE 33° Stonehenge Bowl Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU12424217)
 1.2km NNE 25° Heel Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SU1229142244)
 1.2km N 10° Stonehenge Car Park Postholes* Timber Circle (SU120424)
 1.3km SW 222° Lake Barrow Cemetery* Barrow Cemetery (SU109402)
 1.4km S 180° Wilsford Barrow Cemetery Barrow Cemetery (SU118398)
 1.5km NNW 347° Bowl and Bell Barrow* Barrow Cemetery (SU11454270)
 1.6km N 3° Great Cursus Barrows, Stonehenge* Round Barrow(s) (SU11894278)
 1.6km ENE 58° Amesbury 39 Bowl Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU13154204)
 1.6km ENE 76° Coneybury Henge* Henge (SU134416)
 1.7km NNE 32° The Avenue* Ancient Trackway (SU12694262)
 1.7km NNW 337° Fargo Disk Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU11154275)
 1.7km WNW 288° Winterbourne Stoke* Barrow Cemetery (SU10174171)
 1.8km E 85° King Barrow (Amesbury)* Barrow Cemetery (SU13554137)
 1.8km W 280° Long Barrow Cross* Ancient Cross (SU1005441499)
 1.8km N 9° Great Cursus, Stonehenge* Cursus (SU12064296)
 1.9km S 183° Lake Down Barrow Cemetery Barrow Cemetery (SU117393)
 1.9km NNW 332° Amesbury Cursus (W)* Cursus (SU109429)
 1.9km NNE 17° Great Cursus W Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SU1235143043)
 1.9km ENE 58° New King Barrows* Barrow Cemetery (SU13454222)
 2.1km NW 304° North of Winterbourne Stoke Crossroads* Barrow Cemetery (SU1004742378)
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Stonehenge and Avebury seminar at Devizes, May 2010 by Andy B on Monday, 21 June 2010
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Stuart Needham talked on “A complex of cemeteries”, relating BA barrow distribution to the earlier monuments. He believes that there is a compelling case for continuing reverence of a “super-sacred” zone around Stonehenge, and of Stonehenge itself; he cites the evidence of the axe carvings and the digging of the Y/Z holes, while the adjacent cemeteries, like Normanton Down, show “barrow intensification”, with selected individuals being chosen for burial in these special zones. He made some interesting points about the Y/Z holes, suggesting that at least one of the holes seems to have held a stone orthostat, while the pattern of the rings seems to have encouraged a spiralling perambulation, with the point of entry being near the henge’s southern entrance.

Needham went on to suggest that, while the sacred use of Stonehenge continued into the BA, the map of sacredness was more distributed into the surrounding landscape. The Normanton Down cemeteries complex straddles the NE/SW solstitial line. Could it be, he wonders, that there are the remains of less substantial structures still to be found on the line? And it’s defined by the two dry valleys extending from Lake, to the south, while there’s similar dry valley access from the river Till to the Coniger and Winterbourne Stoke cemeteries. He believes that archaeologists “need to take river valleys more seriously.”

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Re: Normanton Down by coldrum on Monday, 10 August 2009
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Re: Normanton Down by Anonymous on Monday, 25 June 2007
I have not personally been to this spot on the globe, (though I have visited the UK) but I am researching it currently to vote for Stonehenge as a part of the Modern Seven Wonders of the World vote, the first so-called "global vote," and would appreciate any information regarding this entire archaeological phenomenon. I have a few books that detail various raised grounds and megalithic structures, etc...

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