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Summary

One of several barrows on Gittisham Hill which may be the result of a later extraction industry.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19NW/10

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Lower Palaeolithic to XXI - 698000 BC to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Hutchinson, P. O., 1880, 2nd Report of the Barrow Committee, 126-8 (Article in Serial). SDV123157.

Visited c1879. Other details: Nos 23-33 & map.

Worth, R. H., 1902, 21st Report of the Barrow Committee, 107,120,122,127,129,131, Pl.1 (Article in Serial). SDV20971.

Gittisham Hill. Several barrows marked on 6" OS map. Visited c1901. Excavated: burnt stone, flint flakes, pebbles or slingstones and red ochre found.

Fox, A., 1948, The Broad Down (Farway) Necropolis and the Wessex Culture in Devon, 17 (Article in Serial). SDV123165.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1958, SY19NW4 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV124871.

Cairns located and surveyed on field document at SY14759745, SY14769743, SY14799744, SY14779742.

Ordnance Survey, 1975, Untitled Source (Site Visit). SDV124872.

These alleged barrows are no more than the natural ground surface left between the surrounding pits. The whole of Gittisham Hill is covered with similar pits.

Ordnance Survey, 1982, Untitled Source (Site Visit). SDV124873.

Irregular in shape and most definitely not barrows.

Grinsell, L. V., 1983, The Barrows of South and East Devon, 36 (Article in Serial). SDV337013.

Other details: No 1.

Simpson, S. J. + Noble, S., 1993, Archaeological Survey and Management Study of Areas on Gittisham Hill, Farway Hill, and Broad Down, East Devon, 16 (Report - Survey). SDV123162.

Stable. Agree with OS 1975 & 1982.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, 18, Part 1; 135, Part 2: Gazetteer, Site No. 381 (Report - Survey). SDV101648.

SMR records several barrows marked on 1:10560 map, excavated in 19th century, finds from which included charcoal, flint flakes and bronze fragments. Barrows surveyed in 1958 when locations given as grid references SY 1475 9745, SY 1476 9743, SY 1479 9744 and SY 1477 9742. It has since been suggested that the surviving features in this area are not barrows, but merely the natural ground surface left between the surrounding pits (see site 297). At the time of the field survey the presence of cattle precluded a close examination of this particular area, which lay partly under patchy tall gorse. However, pits and spoil relating to probable iron extraction were seen to extend into this area. No other mounds were noted.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 381 (Archive - Survey). SDV358490.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 381 (Report - Survey). SDV359019.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 2508 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Mounds reported as barrows are probable spoil heaps from extraction pits.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds

• FDV646 - FLAKE (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)
• FDV647 - SLING SHOT (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)

Associated Events

• EDV3341 - Unnamed Event
• EDV3342 - SY19NW 4
• EDV3343 - Unnamed Event
• EDV3344 - Archaeological survey and management study of areas on Gittisham Hill, Farway Hill, and Broad Down, East Devon
• EDV3345 - East Devon heathlands archaeological survey

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