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Summary

Round barrow forming part of the dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill. Originally about 15m diameter and 1.3m high and surrounded by a ditch, now largely infilled. It has been damaged by a trackway cut across its north-western edge.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010270: Bowl barrow 160m north west of the Farway Common Road, forming part of a dispersed barrow group on Farway Hill
• SHINE: Two prehistoric barrows towards northern end of Farway Hill, part of the Farway barrow cemetery

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19NE/23
• Old SAM County Ref: 129P
• Old SAM Ref: 24970
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SY19NE5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Constructed, Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Fox, A., 1948-1952, The Broad Down (Farway) Necropolis and the Wessex Culture in Devon, 1-19 (Article in Serial). SDV123888.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1957, SY19NE5 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV99861.

Barrow at SY16099685. Part of the Farway Bronze Age cemetery.
Site visit 10th November 1975. Extensively mutilated by deep ploughing and tree-planting: furze covered with central area dug away. Diameter 11m, height 1m.

Silvester, R. J., 1977, Barrow on Farway Hill (Site Visit). SDV366423.

On the east side of the track, just in the plantation; west side overgrown with shrubs, brambles etc. Some of forestry cuts impinge on east side. Hole dug and used by animals, slightly east of centre.

Robinson, R., 1982, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1982 (Un-published). SDV342809.

Site visit 24th May 1982.

Grinsell, L. V., 1983, The Barrows of South and East Devon, 41 (33 No. 4) (Article in Serial). SDV337013.

Site visit 17th July 1972. Barrow on the path beside the pine plantation. Almost on the Honiton boundary. Ditch shown by waterlogged patches in the path. 12m diameter, 0.9m high.

Simpson, S. J. + Noble, S., 1993, Archaeological Survey and Management Study of Areas on Gittisham Hill, Farway Hill, and Broad Down, East Devon (Report - Survey). SDV123162.

Site visit 3rd November 1992. Deteriorating, mainly from use of the track leading to erosion of the mound and the upper part of the ditch.

Gibbons, 1993, Monument Protection Programme, 134696 (Un-published). SDV99864.

Site visit 30th November 1993. Bowl barrow with an original diameter of about 15m and height of 1.3m. It is surrounded by a largely infilled ditch about 2m wide and 0.4m deep, from which material was quarried for the construction of the barrow. The ditch is prone to waterlogging. Exposed peaty soil on the top of the mound contains flinty stones up to 15cm in size. The mound is cut by the ridges of the forestry plantation, and there is a large intrusion in the centre measuring 2.7 by 2.4 by 0.8m deep, possibly representing an antiquarian excavation. Old animal burrows are present within the mound. A forestry track cuts across the north west edge of the barrow, it is 3.5m wide and has removed about 3.5m, radially, of the mound. The track is unmetalled and has two depressions where it crosses the alignment of the ditch. On the far side of the track the ditch is visible as a hollow which holds water.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 606 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Barrow c 15m diameter X 1.3m high. Northwest edge cut by forestry track. Scheduled Monument.
SMR.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 60 (Report - non-specific). SDV355280.

Generally satisfactory but with significant localised problems. Declining. Principal vulnerability scrub/tree growth.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY1696 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016, 04-MAY-2016 and 27-JUN-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

A small and approximately circular earthwork mound is visible.

Sims, R., Knight, S. & Houghton, E., 2020-2021, East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment (Interpretation). SDV363914.

The barrow is visible as a small approximately circular mound circa 12m across is visible on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016. There is a depression in the centre and north-east side of the mound.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8340 - East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment

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