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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.): 1024.1.3
• OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW86SW 10
• Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 4666.05
• Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey North Cornwall: 8452
• SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW86SW 25

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) (1). A severely mutilated barrow which is a Scheduled Monument. It is marked on the OS maps of 1933, 1963 and 1974, and in 1952 was described by the IAM as being 16.5m in diameter by 1.2m - 1.5m high, with about one third of the mound remaining (h1). In 1962 the remains were re-surveyed by the OS (h2). The main part of the mound is covered by rough grass. The location of this barrow can be identified on aerial photographs taken in 1969 (2). Analysis of lidar imagery by the North Cornwall RCZAS has recorded the barrow as surviving as a mound 12m in diameter and up to 1m 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, 1969, OS/69/269/151-2 (Photographic Record). SCO15102.

<3> Channel Coastal Observatory, Channel Coastal Observatory Lidar (Survey). SCO29159.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• ECO2736 - Newquay Barrowfields assessment

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