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| HER Number: | 4666.04 |
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| Name: | BARROWFIELDS - Bronze Age barrow |
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Summary
One of three extant barrows, part of a large group, most of which is now destroyed.
Protected Status
- Scheduled Monument CO619: Three round barrows on the Barrow Fields
Other References/Statuses
- National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 1024.1.2
- OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW86SW 10
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 4666.04
- Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey North Cornwall: 3874
- SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW86SW 24
Monument Type(s):
- BARROW (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)
Full description
Part of a large barrow group most of which is now destroyed (4666). A severely mutilated barrow which is a Scheduled Monument. It is shown on the OS maps of 1933, 1963 and 1974, and in 1952 the IAM recorded it as being 22.9m in diameter by 1.2m - 1.8m high, with only half to a third of it left of it left owing to a large segment being cut away for a putting green (h1). These crescentic remains were resurveyed at 1:2500 scale by the OS fieldworker in 1962 (h2). The top half of the round is covered by rough grass, the lower half, including the putting green area, is short grass (h3). This barrow is visible on vertical aerial photographs taken in 1951 (2), traces of the barrow are visible as cropmarks in the putting green. Analysis of lidar imagery shows a surviving earthwork approximately 24m in diameter and up to 1.4m high (3).
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Site history:
1: 1952. SAUNDERS, A / IAM
2: 1962. QUINNELL, NV / OS
3: 1982. SHEPPARD, P / FMW
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<1> Woolf, C & Sheppard, PA, 1982, St Columb Minor Checklist, VOL 21, 198 (Article in Journal). SCO5072.
<2> RAF, 1951, 58/680/3392-3 (Photographic Record). SCO13331.
<3> Channel Coastal Observatory, Channel Coastal Observatory Lidar (Survey). SCO29159.
Sources / Further Reading
| [1] | SCO5072 - Article in Journal: Woolf, C & Sheppard, PA. 1982. St Columb Minor Checklist. Cornish Archaeology. 21. VOL 21, 198. |
| [2] | SCO13331 - Photographic Record: RAF. 1951. 58/680/3392-3. ABP. |
| [3] | SCO29159 - Survey: Channel Coastal Observatory. Channel Coastal Observatory Lidar. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Related records
| 4666 | Part of: BARROWFIELDS - Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Monument) |
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