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HER Number:738.30
Name:SMALLHILL - Bronze Age barrow

Summary

Remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, spread by ploughing.

Grid Reference:SX 1777 9395
Parish:Otterham, North Cornwall, Cornwall
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Protected Status

  • Scheduled Monument CO580: Group of round barrows E of Smallhill

Other References/Statuses

  • National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 1059.42
  • OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SX19SE 8
  • Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 738.30
  • SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SX19SE 4

Monument Type(s):

  • BARROW (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)

Full description

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, 36.7m in diameter and 1.0m high. It has a slight central depression and has been spread by ploughing, there is no visible ditch (h1). The barrow mound with encircling ditch are clearly visible on aerial photographs (p1). It appears to be 30m across and was plotted during the Cornwall NMP. The monument is included in the Schedule.

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Site history:
1: 1976. OS
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RAF, 1946, 106G/UK/1498 4080-1 (Photographic Record). SCO10159.

Sources / Further Reading

[p1]SCO10159 - Photographic Record: RAF. 1946. 106G/UK/1498 4080-1. ABP.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records

738Part of: SMALLHILL - Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Monument)