NEOLITHIC OF THE WYLYE VALLEY 1: CORTON LONG BARROW 73 
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Fig. 5 Long barrow viewsheds in the Wylye Valley as determined by site visits and mapped contours at 1:25000. Long barrows 
are: A) Warminster 6, B) Norton Bavant 14, C) Norton Bavant 13, D) Bowl’s (Bole’s) Barrow, E) Heytesbury 4, F) Knook, G) 
King Barrow, H) Sutton Veny, I) Corton (Boyton 1), 7) Sherrington 4, K) Sherrington 1, L) Stockton (see also Table 2) 
the valley, presumably as a communication route and the Wylye from a distance, and 
thus indicating its partially open nature. By (3) those which look into other dry valleys (i.e. the 
examining the siting and viewsheds of these barrows Oxendean-Heytesbury valley through which 
(Figure 5) three groups can be defined; runs an unnamed bourne) and may look over, 
rather than into, the Wylye. 
(1) those which look into, or are sited in, the Wylye 
Valley Thus, the viewsheds we define are not defined by 
(2) those on the higher Salisbury Plain that look over intervisibility between the barrows (cf. Wheatley 
