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HER Number:	MDV9281
Name:	BARROW in the Parish of Chudleigh

Summary

Vis=25/6/1953(os) undisturbed bronze age cairn of chert with peat, showing outcrops of flint nodules. Diameter 10.9m, height 0.7m. Vis=6/9/1981 (turner + grinsell). Heath. Cairn covered with gorse. Cairn material exposed in and around centre of barrow. Diameter 11m, height 0.6m.(grinsell). Vis=13/10/1981 (os). A cairn 10m diameter and 0.5m high, partly heather covered but with modern rubbish dumped to one side. An exposure of chert suggests a circular wall 4.0m diameter. Vis=estimated -/-/1991 (baker). Orvergrown with saplings, brambles and rhodedendron. Modern rubblish. Some stone visible on the top (baker).

Location

Grid Reference:	SX 895 812
Map Sheet:	SX88SE
Admin Area	Devon
Civil Parish	Chudleigh
District	Teignbridge
Ecclesiastical Parish	UNKNOWN

Protected Status

SHINE: Bronze Age cairn south east of Ducksmoor Covert

Other References/Statuses

National Record of the Historic Environment: 447231
Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88SE/7

Monument Type(s) and Dates

CAIRN (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Baker, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV284386.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV284387.

Osa=sx88se6/photograph,plan.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV284388.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/41(1983)31.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV284389.

Baker, d. /(9/9/1991)/worksheet in parish file.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 RP 3013-3014 04-NOV-1946 (Aerial Photograph). SDV352344.

A mound is visible as an earthwork.

Next Perspectives, 2015-2017, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX8981 23/08/2016 (Aerial Photograph). SDV361515.

Tree cover obscures the site of the mound.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2018-2019, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 1, Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley (Interpretation). SDV361305.

A roughly circular mound up to circa 11.5m in diameter is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1946 on the on the west facing slopes of a spur south of Ducksmoor Covert, Chudleigh. The mound might be a cairn of later prehistoric date, part of a large group recorded along the spur. No evidence of damage to the earthwork is apparent on the 1946 aerial photographs. The mound is obscured from view by a dense tree canopy on images derived from aerial photographs of 2016 and it is therefore not possible to record the condition of the earthwork. However, it may be assumed that the earthwork might be affected by root growth.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV284386	Report - Survey: Baker.


SDV284387	Migrated Record:
SDV284388	Migrated Record:
SDV284389	Migrated Record:
SDV352344	Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1824. Royal Air Force Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). RAF/CPE/UK/1824 RP 3013-3014 04-NOV-1946.


SDV361305	Interpretation: Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R.. 2018-2019. The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 1, Haldon Ridge to Dart Valley. Historic England Research Report. Digital.

	Linked documents:1
SDV361515	Aerial Photograph: Next Perspectives. 2015-2017. Aerial Photography for Great Britain. Digital. Next Perspectives APGB Imagery SX8981 23/08/2016.

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

EDV7515 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey (Ref: ACD1748)

Date Last Edited:	Sep 28 2018 5:37PM

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