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Summary

One of four Prehistoric barrows to the south of Four Cross Way

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Two prehistoric barrows south of Four Cross Way

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 34485
• National Monuments Record: SS 63 NE 1
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS63NE/20
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS63NE1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 2600 BC to 700 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1947, CPE/UK/2082, 4061-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV343041.

Possible traces visible on aerial photograph.

Grinsell, L. V., 1970, The Barrows of North Devon, 112 (Article in Serial). SDV7849.

Barrow Number BF 3 under grass. Diameter fourteen paces, height 1 foot.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1973, SS63NE1 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343040.

Turf covered, probably a cairn. Diameter 18.0 metres, height 0.4 metres.

National Monuments Record, 2007 - 2009, National Monuments Record Index incorporating Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme for SS63NE (National Monuments Record Database). SDV343039.

A group of four Bronze Age grass-covered barrows is visible situated on high ground south of Cape of Good Hope Farm, Bratton Fleming. All measure approximately 10 metres in diameter and up to 0.5 metres high. One is thought to have been excavated and a cremation and burial goods recovered. Other details: Number: 34485.

Platell, A. + Armstrong, J., 2010 + 2011, Land at Bratton Fleming, Devon: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment, 4 (Report - Assessment). SDV347688.

An archeological desk-based assessment was undertaken in advance of proposed development on land at Bratton Fleming, to the west of Cape of Good Hope Farm. No earthworks of archaeological significance were identified during a walk-over survey, except the southernmost barrow which appears as a small mound circa 0.3 metres high. Other details: Figure 1.

Hale, D., 2011, Land at Bratton Fleming, Barnstaple, Devon: Geophysical Survey, 6 (Report - Geophysical Survey). SDV347687.

During geophysical survey on land to the west of Cape of Good Hope Farm a curvilinear anomaly detected on the southern edge of the survey area corresponds exactly with the recorded location of a round barrow on the ridge top. Other details: Figure 4.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4547 - Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme
• EDV5232 - Geophysical Survey on Land at Bratton Fleming

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