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Summary

Southern of two bowl barrows forming part of a linear group. Visible as an earthwork mound with surrouning ditch on images derived from lidar data captured in 2013.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016647: Two bowl barrows 400m north west of Gorvin
• SHINE: Prehistoric bowl barrows north-west of Gorvin Farm

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 149841
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS21NE/508
• Old SAM Ref: 32204
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS21NE7

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOWL BARROW (LANEBA to Late Bronze Age - 2500 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1959, RAF/58/2984, NMR RAF/58/2984 F22 0059 30-JUN-1959 (Aerial Photograph). SDV349064.

The barrow shows clearly as a dark ring ditch cropmark.

Grinsell, L. V., 1970, The Barrows of North Devon, 121 (Article in Serial). SDV7849.

Visited 5th April 1969. Diameter 32 paces, height 3.5 feet. Suggestion of a ditch.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977 - 1980, SS21NE7 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV340120.

Visited 16th October 1977. Barrow A. A bowl barrow now with no evidence of a ditch, 32.0 metres diameter, 1.2 metres high.

Devon Committee for Rescue Archaeology, 1979 - 1981, North Devon Barrow Survey, DCRA ND 45 (Archive - Survey). SDV341310.

Site visit 8th November 1979. Diameter circa 40.0 metres, with ditch. Height 1.35 metres. Flattened and spread, but still very substantial. Slightly flat-topped with clear indications of a ditch on the north and east sides, circa 5.0 metres wide and 0.2-0.3 metres deep. Mound circa 30.0 metres diameter. In pasture. Good condition.

Allden, A., 1981, A Study of some Devon Barrows and their Diminishing Future (Report - non-specific). SDV339662.

Horner, W., 1996, Barrow (Personal Comment). SDV340121.

Visited 5th September 1996. This barrow has occasionally been re-seeded. Dimensions as above. The ditch is also faintly visible on the south side. Forms part of an aligned group.

Bayer, O. J., 1996, Barrows in the Torridge District of North West Devon: A Study in Distribution and Location, Hartland 15 (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV319515.

Gerrard, H., 1998, Southern of two bowl barrows 400m north west of Gorvin Farm, AI 149841 (Un-published). SDV340122.

Southern of two bowl barrows 400 metres north-west of Gorvin Farm.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1999, Two Bowl Barrows 400m north west of Gorvin (Schedule Document). SDV340123.

[One of] two bowl barrows situated on a prominent upland ridge overlooking the valley of Seckington Water. These form part of a group of barrows recorded in the area. The southernmost barrow survives as a slightly oval mound which measures 35.7 metres east-west, 30.1 metres north-south and 1.4 metres high. The surrounding ditch is visible, measuring up to 5.1 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 115 (Report - non-specific). SDV342694.

English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010: South West, 108 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 115 (Report - non-specific). SDV355280.

Extensive significant problems i.e. under plough, collapse. Declining.

NERC, 2013, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) Tellus: Tamar Aerial Survey project area, LIDAR Tellus LAST RETURN 01-JUL-2013 to 31-AUG-2013 (Cartographic). SDV363955.

An earthwork mound and surrounding ditch are visible.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Tumuli marked.

Hegarty, C., Houghton, E., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2020-2021, Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund project) (Interpretation). SDV364011.

The barrow is visible as an earthwork mound, approximately 27 metres in diameter, surrounded by an earthwork ditch, approximately 5 metres wide, on images derived from lidar data captured in 2013. The mound had already been transcribed for the Tamar NMP survey, but the ditch has now also been transcribed.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4415 - Devon Barrow Survey
• EDV8356 - Tamar/Lidar; A Single Source Approach to Landscape Survey and Socially Distanced Community Archaeology Area 2 (Culture Recovery Fund) (Ref: ACD2424)

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