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Summary

Prehistoric bowl barrow to the southwest of Elworthy Cross one of a linear group of four

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016649: Bowl barrow 175m south west of Elworthy Cross
• SHINE: Prehistoric barrow south west of Elworthy Cross

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 35608
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS81NW/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 472
• Old SAM Ref: 32208
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS81NW5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOWL BARROW (Early Bronze Age to Late Iron Age - 2200 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1970, SS81NW5 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV341913.

Tumulus to the southwest of Ellworthy Cross.
Flat topped round barrow 0.9 metres high with no ditch and no sign of excavation. Grass covered and situated in unreclaimed moorland.

Grinsell, L. V., 1970, The Barrows of North Devon, 129 (Article in Serial). SDV7849.

Visited on 27th May 1958. Broad and flat grass mound 30 paces diameter and height 3 feet (0.91 metres).

Department of Environment, 1974, Four Round Barrows near Elworthy Cross (Schedule Document). SDV341912.

Round barrow (a) to the west of the road. Flat topped mound 94 foot diameter (28.65 metres) by 2 foot 6 inches (0.76 metres) high. In a marshy pasture field. Other details: Monument 472.

Weston, S., 1983, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1983 (Un-published). SDV343247.

Gerrard, H., 1998, Bowl Barrow 170 metres southwest of Elworthy Cross (Un-published). SDV341915.

Department of Environment, 1999, Bowl Barrow 170 metres southwest of Elworthy Cross (Schedule Document). SDV341917.

Monument includes a bowl barrow on the upland ridge known as Witheridge Moor. The westernmost of a group of four barrows along the ridge. The monument survives as a circular mound 32.5 metres diameter and 0.8 metres high. The surrounding ditch from which material to construct the mound was derived survives as a buried feature approximately 3.5 metres wide. Other details: Monument 32208.

Dean, R., 2008, Pilliven Farm, Witheridge: Results of an Archaeological Gradiometer Survey, 26 (Report - Geophysical Survey). SDV341916.

Other details: Appendix D.

National Monuments Record, 2011, 35608 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV346401.

Bronze Age bowl barrow on Witheridge moor, the easternmost of a group. It measures 32.5 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres high.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

'Tumulus' shown on modern mapping to the south-west of Elworthy Cross.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4449 - Gradiometer Survey at Pilliven Farm, Witheridge

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