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HER Number:	18878
Name:	MALPAS - Bronze Age barrow

Summary

The remains of a bowl barrow whose north-east quadrant has been completely destroyed.

Grid Reference:	SW 8488 4333
Parish:	St Clement, Carrick, Cornwall
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Protected Status

Scheduled Monument 32909: THE CREGOU OR CREGON BOWL BARROW AND ENCLOSURE 900M SOUTH EAST OF PARK FARM

Other References/Statuses

National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 173/19/1
OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SW84SW 4
Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 18878
SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SW84SW 21

Monument Type(s):

BARROW (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)

Full description

Henderson describes a very large circular mound of earth and rubble stone, its interior slightly quarried, which he believes to be a barrow (b1). He states that the hill on which it is situated is called Cregou Hill, claiming that the Cornish name includes the plural of the element cruc. Cruc means 'barrow, hillock', and may refer to either a natural or an archaeological feature (b2). The mound is marked as 'tumulus' on the 1963 OS Map. In 1965 the OS found it consisted of a large mound 1.5m high, probably the remains of a bowl barrow whose north-east quadrant has been completely destroyed and whose centre has been dug out to below ground level (h1). In 1978 the barrow was described as semi-circular in plan (h3).
The monument was included in the Schedule on 19/1/1977 and the scheduling was revised on 17/5/2000.

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Site history:
1: 1965. GHP/OS
2: 1976. REES, S/IAM
3: 1978. SHEPPARD, PA/IAM
4: 1981. SHEPPARD, PA/IAM
5: 1983. SHEPPARD, PA/IAM
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<1> Henderson, C, 1914, Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities, VOL III, 222 (Unpublished document). SCO3503.

RAF, 1946, 106G/1663/3085 (Photographic Record). SCO9790.

<2> Padel, OJ, 1985, Cornish Place-Name Elements, 73-74 (Bibliographic reference). SCO4064.

Sources / Further Reading

[1]	SCO3503 - Unpublished document: Henderson, C. 1914. Notebooks of Parochial Antiquities. MS At RIC. VOL III, 222.
[p1]	SCO9790 - Photographic Record: RAF. 1946. 106G/1663/3085.
[2]	SCO4064 - Bibliographic reference: Padel, OJ. 1985. Cornish Place-Name Elements. 73-74.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded

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