Manton Down
Manton Down (also called Manton Long Barrow or Doghill Barrow) was near Marlborough in Wiltshire in England and is a long hill that has gone out. In the southeast of the southeast-northwest oriented oval long hill was a simple chamber.
Glyn Daniel noted in 1950 that the mound was about 22 meters long, 10.5 meters wide and one meter high. It was demolished in 1952 by a new tenant who had not been told it mattered. In 1955 Atkinson carried out a "rescue dig" but failed to prepare a report. Buried in a pit in the forecourt was the skull of an ox and broken glass from Windmill Hill Ware . The remains of the chamber inside were "no larger than a square meter". At that time there were still traces of a stone packing and a preserved curb. In the middle of the 19th century, Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) described the hill as bordered with curbs. The stones in the chamber had been exposed for centuries, as a drawing from the late 17th century shows. It is referred to as Cromlech on the OS map from 1815 and as Kistvaen ( stone box ) on later maps . Both are incorrect.
For a time the hill was thought to have completely disappeared. In 2011, Paul Blades announced that he had found the remains of the hill, thickly covered with blackberries. There are at least six large sarsen plates that are approximately two meters long. the largest measures 2.7 m. They are probably stones from the hill that were moved there with a bulldozer.
Nearby is the Manton Round Barrow.
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