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Summary

Kipscombe Bronze Age bowl barrow with a surviving ditch

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016658: Kipscombe bowl barrow
• SHINE: Prehistoric Barrow north east of Kipacombe

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 34505
• National Monuments Record: SS 63 NE 5
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS63NE/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 206
• Old SAM Ref: 32219
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS63NE5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1905, 10NE (Cartographic). SDV335636.

Ministry of Works, 1948, Kipscombe Round Barrow (Schedule Document). SDV343062.

Kipscombe round barrow has a surrounding ditch which is no longer well-defined between the southeast and southwest points. Summit of tumulus slightly slopes down from northwest to southeast and is fairly smooth. No depression or basin in the summit which is more flat than rounded. Diameter 9 metres, ditch 0.15 metres deep. Other details: Number 206.

Radford, C. + Radford, C. A. R., 1949, Nineteenth Report on Ancient Monuments, 48 (Article in Serial). SDV25123.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953 - 1973, SS63NE5 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343064.

A decapitated bowl barrow covered with turf and fern and has slight indications of trenching in the south east. Surrounded by ditch except for a small portion in the south west, where it has been obliterated.

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

Well marked ditch with diameter of 10 paces, height 3.5 feet.

Weston, S., 1983, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1982 (Un-published). SDV342456.

Gerrard, H., 1998, MPP 149864 (Un-published). SDV343065.

Kipscombe bowl barrow.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1999, Kipscombe Bowl Barrow (Schedule Document). SDV343063.

Kipscombe bowl barrow is situated on a high upland ridge which marks the watershed of two tributaries to the River Bray. The monument survives as a circular mound 9.8 metres diameter and is 0.9 metres high. The surrounding ditch is visible on all sides and is up to 2.9 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep. An excavation trench 2 metres wide and extending from the top of the mound towards the southwest is just visible. As a result the mound generally slopes on the top in a south westerly direction.

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

A bowl barrow situated on a high upland ridge. It survives as a circular mound which measures 9.8 metres in diameter and is 0.9 metres high. The surrounding quarry ditch is visible on all sides of the barrow and measures up to 2.9 metres wide and 0.1 metre deep. An excavation trench measuring 2 metres wide and extending from the top of the mound towrads the south west is just visible. As a result the mound generally slopes on the top in a south westerly direction. Other details: Monument Number 34505.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4547 - Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme

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