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Summary

One of a group of at least six barrows, in a field known as Seven Barrow Field. Part of a larger barrow cemetery on Broad Down and visible as an earthwork on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1017642: Round barrow cemetery on Broad Down

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 144378
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19SE/43
• Old SAM County Ref: 241J
• Old SAM Ref: 29634
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SY19SE12D

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Ministry of Public Building and Works, Southleigh and Fairway Group of Barrows on Broad Down (Schedule Document). SDV342868.

Southern section of a Bronze Age cemetery, all are round barrows without visible ditches. Thirteen more or less intact, others recently destroyed by deep cultivation.

Hutchinson, P. O., 1848-1894, Diaries (Un-published). SDV339321.

Other details: Diary entry for 25/03/1871.

Worth, R. N., 1880, 2nd Report of the Barrow Committee, 131 (Article in Serial). SDV123157.

Barrow on broad down. Towards the northern verge of the three cornered field. Barrow was trenched in 1868, but nothing found. Other details: Barrow 52.

Fox, A., 1948, The Broad Down (Farway) Necropolis and the Wessex Culture in Devon, 18 (Article in Serial). SDV123165.

Mound ploughed down. Diameter 70 feet, height 2 feet 6 inches. Other details: No.35.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1975 - 1980, SY19SE12 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV342869.

Visited on 14th March 1957. Barrow D no longer exists, the area having been ploughed down and being under crops.
Visited on 19th November 1975. A spread, rather oval and amorphous barrow circa 24.0 metres diameter north-west to south-east and 28.0 metres north-east to south-west, height 0.4 metres. Other details: Plan, site D.

Robinson, R., 1982, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1982 (Un-published). SDV345608.

Site visit by Department of Environment Field Monument Warden on 7th July 1982.

Grinsell, L. V., 1983, The Barrows of South and East Devon, 34 (Article in Serial). SDV337013.

Visited on 19th July 1971. Under grass. Diameter 21.5 metres and height 0.6 metres. Other details: Barrow 23.

Sainsbury, I. S., 1991, Barrows (Worksheet). SDV342870.

Diameter circa13 metres, slight east-west elongation owing to ploughing, height 0.5 metres maximum.

Simpson, S. J. + Noble, S., 1993, Archaeological Survey and Management Study of Areas on Gittisham Hill, Farway Hill, and Broad Down, East Devon, 25 (Report - Survey). SDV123162.

Visited on 4th November 1992. Stable, under pasture.

Salvatore, J. P., 1997, Bowl Barrow, Part of a Group in Seven Barrow Field on Broad Down, 144378 (Un-published). SDV342871.

Although visible as a mound it is ploughed down and is far lower than the nearby barrows. It is 21.5 metres in diameter with a height of about 0.5 metres and no traces of a surrounding ditch.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1998, Round Barrow Cemetery on Broad Down (Schedule Document). SDV342874.

One of a group of at least six barrows, in a field known as Seven Barrow Field, clustered together in no obvious formation. Part of a larger barrow cemetery on Broad Down, in which some of the barrows are arranged in linear formation, some are clustered in groups or pairs and others are relatively isolated. The height of the barrow mounds in Seven Barrow Field varies between 0.2 and 1.7 metres which represents the highest survival in the cemetery as a whole. The diameter of their mounds varies between 14 and 34 metres. At least one of the group has evidence for a surrounding quarry ditch which is visible as a slight depression around the mound.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, 498 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 96 (Report - non-specific). SDV342694.

Extensive significant problems. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010: South West, 87 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY1794 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

The barrow is visible as an earthwork mound.

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 circular earthwork on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016 circa 20m across.

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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