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Summary

Bowl barrow, surviving as a low mound in a ploughed arable field, one of a loose cluster of four barrows near the centre of the area covered by the Upton Pyne barrow group.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1010638: Bowl barrow 280m NNE of Starved Oak Cross
• SHINE: Bronze Age bowl barrow south west of Long Plantation

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX99NW/123
• Old SAM Ref: 15021
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX99NW 5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1962 - 1982, SX99NW5 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343142.

Site visit 02/08/1962. This feature (at SX91399910) is a low, spread, and unsurveyable mound. It may be partly if not wholly, natural, but could be a ploughed down bowl barrow.
Site visit 09/02/1982. There are no visible remains of a barrow in the area indicated.

Fox, A., 1969, The Upton Pyne Cemetery, 77 (Article in Serial). SDV341856.

Other details: Barrow 14.

Allden, A., 1981, A Study of some Devon Barrows and their Diminishing Future, 22 (Report - non-specific). SDV339662.

Grinsell, L. V., 1983, The Barrows of South and East Devon, 44 (Article in Serial). SDV337013.

Department of Environment, 1991, Bowl Barrow 280 Metres North-North-East of Starved Oak Cross (Schedule Document). SDV343143.

The monument is a bowl barrow surviving as a low mound, 30 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high, in a ploughed arable field. Despite its low surface profile, extensive sub surface mound layers and intact funerary deposits are considered likely to survive. As excavation of a nearby barrow revealed, barrows in this group were terraced into the slope and have been preserved by subsequent soil build-up. In addition, there is no visible or recorded evidence that the barrow has been excavated and the deposits should remain in an intact, undisturbed state. This barrow is one of a loose cluster of four barrows on a gentle south-west-facing slope near the centre of the area covered by the Upton Pyne barrow group, which comprises over 30 recorded barrows.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 98 (Report - non-specific). SDV342694.

Extensive significant problems, ie under plough, collapse. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010: South West, 90 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 94 (Report - non-specific). SDV355280.

Extensive significant problems, ie under plough, collapse. Declining. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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