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Summary

The site of a probable levelled barrow of Bronze Age date was visible on aerial photographs as a cropmark of a ditch and low partial earthwork mound on the south-facing slopes to the north-west of Starved Oak Cross, Brampford Speke. The possible barrow would have been part of the Upton Pyne barrow group.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Cropmarks defining prehistoric barrows to north west of Starved Oak Cross

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX99NW/121

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

APH, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV132449.

Barrow in field s of "three barrows".30m diameter and 0.6m high. First recorded in 1968. Soil marks visible in ploughed field (fox). Vis=-/4/1976 (student survey). Grassed over. Very difficult to see. Vis=-/11/1979 (allden). Field under grass. A rise beside west hedge of field may be remans of a barrow. Profile recorded. Vis=9/2/1982 (os). Sited at sx91199911 from fox's plan. Nothing visible on available ap's. Ploughed out with no remains. Field currently under pasture. Vis=30/3/1990 (robinson). Nothing visible, level field (dprfp). Vis=annular cropmark, recorded from the air by f. Griffith 1984 (aph).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132450.

Fox, a. /pdas/27(1969)77 no.12/the upton pyne cemetery.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132451.

Allden, a. /dcra no.10(1981)22/a study of some devon barrows.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV132452.

Aph=raf/cpe/uk/1995.2155-6/(13/4/1947).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132453.

Osa=sx99nw36.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132454.

Des=student survey drawing/(1979)/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132455.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/41(1983)44.

Untitled Source (Aerial Photograph). SDV132456.

Aph=dap/ay 10a(4/7/1984).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV132457.

Des=dprfp 1990)and photo n 32).

Unknown, Upton Pyne Barrow 12 Profile (Plan - measured). SDV348575.

Devon County Council, 1989, DAP/6232, DAP 6232/10A 04-JUL-1989 (AY) (Aerial Photograph). SDV359193.

A curvilinear cropmark of a ditch was visible.

National Monument Record, 2007, NMR 24517, NMR 24517/29 23-JAN-2007 (Aerial Photograph). SDV358056.

Remains of a slight earthwork mound were visible.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2014-2015, East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV356883.

The site of a probable levelled barrow of Bronze Age date was visible on aerial photographs of 1989 as a curvilinear or incompletely visible circular cropmark of a ditch abutting the northern edge of a field boundary approximately 200 metres the north-west of Starved Oak Cross, Brampford Speke. A break in the north-west edge of the cropmark transcribed by the N MP survey is a result of background cropmarks of natural origin probably obscuring the archaeological cropmarks in this location, and should not be taken to indicate a break in the line of the buried ditch, which may continue in this area.
A very slight mound might be visible on digital images derived from Lidar data, within the area enclosed by the cropmark ditch, but was not well defined enough to transcribe. A rise in the line of the field boundary as it crosses the southern edge of the barrow, as visible in aerial photographs of 2007, may be evidence of the preservation of barrow mound material in the fabric of the boundary bank. The barrow would have been part of the Upton Pyne barrow group.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV132449	Report - Survey: APH.
SDV132450	Migrated Record:
SDV132451	Migrated Record:
SDV132452	Aerial Photograph:
SDV132453	Migrated Record:
SDV132454	Migrated Record:
SDV132455	Migrated Record:
SDV132456	Aerial Photograph:
SDV132457	Migrated Record:
SDV348575	Plan - measured: Unknown. Upton Pyne Barrow 12 Profile. Plan + Digital.
SDV356883	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2014-2015. East and Mid Devon River Catchments National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
	Linked documents:1
SDV358056	Aerial Photograph: National Monument Record. 2007. NMR 24517. National Monument Record Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). NMR 24517/29 23-JAN-2007.
SDV359193	Aerial Photograph: Devon County Council. 1989. DAP/6232. Devon Aerial Photograph. Photograph (Paper). DAP 6232/10A 04-JUL-1989 (AY). [Mapped feature: #81334 ]

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6530 - The East and Mid-Devon Rivers Catchment NMP project (Ref: ACD613)

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