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| HER Number: | 2230.20 |
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| Name: | TICHBARROW - Bronze Age barrow |
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Summary
Central barrow in an east-west alignment of three barrows which includes Tichbarrow.
Protected Status
- Scheduled Monument CO323: Tich Barrow round barrows
Other References/Statuses
- National Mapping Programme (Morph No.): 1068.32
- OS No. (OS Quarter-sheet and OS No.): SX18NW 13
- Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 2230.20
- SMR No. (OS Quarter-sheet and SMR No.): SX18NW 14
Monument Type(s):
- BARROW (Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 801 BC)
Full description
The central barrow in an east-west alignment of three scheduled barrows which includes Tichbarrow at its eastern end. The two westerly barrows are set close together below the crest of a gentle south-east slope. This is a bowl barrow 18m in diameter with a maximum height on its downhill side of 0.9m; there is no visible trace of a ditch.
This barrow is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs (p1) and was plotted during the Cornwall NMP. The monument is included in the Schedule.
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Site history:
1: 1956. SAUNDERS / DOE
2: 1976. OS
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<1> DOE, 19--, Scheduled Monument Description, 25 (Bibliographic reference). SCO5199.
MAL, 1967, MAL2667 077-8 (Photographic Record). SCO14744.
Sources / Further Reading
| [p1] | SCO14744 - Photographic Record: MAL. 1967. MAL2667 077-8. ABP. |
| [1] | SCO5199 - Bibliographic reference: DOE. 19--. Scheduled Monument Description. HBMC / English Heritage, Copy at CAU. 25. |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
Related records
| 2230 | Part of: TICHBARROW - Bronze Age barrow cemetery (Monument) |
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