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Summary

Northern of two bowl barrows 400m north-west of Gorvin Farm, forming part of a group. Mound is visible as an earthwork on images derived from lidar data captured in 2013.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016647: Two bowl barrows 400m north west of Gorvin

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 149842
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS21NE/509
• 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

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

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977 - 1980, SS21NE7(b) (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV340124.

Site visit 16th October 1977. Barrow B. A barrow, possibly a bowl, no evidence of a ditch, approximately 12 metres diameter, 0.2 metres high.

Devon Committee for Rescue Archaeology, 1979 - 1981, North Devon Barrow Survey, DCRA ND 43 (Archive - Survey). SDV341310.

Site visit 8th November 1979. Diameter 13.5 metres, height 0.2-0.3 metres. Very small, low mound almost flattened out. Seems to run into ditch of ND45. Very insubstantial, and one ploughing could remove it altogether. Poor 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. Barrow still visible in pasture. Occasionally re-seeded. Dimensions roughly as above. 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 14 (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV319515.

Gerrard, H., 1998, Northern of two Bowl Barrows 400m north west of Gorvin Farm, AI 149842 (Un-published). SDV340125.

Northern 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. The northernmost barrow survives as a circular mound with a diameter of 16.2 metres and it is 0.3 metres high. The surrounding ditch is preserved as a buried feature 2 metres wide adjoining that of the southern barrow.

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.

A roughly circular earthwork mound is 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, up to approximately 14 metres in diameter, on images derived from lidar data captured in 2013. The mound had been transcribed for the Tamar NMP survey, and is depicted on the modern OS mapping. The earthwork visible on the lidar imagery does not exactly correlate with any of these locations, nor with the Scheduled area, and has been re-transcribed for this project.

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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