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Summary

Bowl barrow 8.5 metres north/south by 10.5 metres east/west by 0.8 metre maximum height, with rounded lumpy top. Visible as an oval earthwork mound on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19SE/87

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119774.

Hutchinson, p. O. /tda/12(1880)139.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119775.

Osa=sy19se5/plan.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119776.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/41(1983)35 no 38.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119777.

Fox, a. /pdas/4(1948-52)1-19/the farway necropolis.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119778.

Simpson, s. J. + noble, s. /archaeological survey and management study of areas on gittisham hill, farway hill and broad down, east devon/(1993)26/(emafu report 93.38).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV119779.

Des=manning, p.(exeter archaeology)/(20/8/2002)/letter + map in pf.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=19/11/1975 (os) barrow completely inaccessible in dense gorse. Os survey accepted (os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV1004.

Vis=17/7/1972 (grinsell) heath. Diameter 6.5m, height 0.5m.

MANNING, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV56449.

A survey undertaken by exeter archaeology after ploughing just n of the barrow group in july 2002 found no damage to this group (manning).

Griffith, F. M., Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV677.

Vis=the 1975 os record asserts that this barrow is scheduled. Although shown on the am7, it is described as 'destroyed' and is not scheduled (fmg).

HUTCHINSON, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV96023.

No 67. A small barrow of flints (hutchinson).

Simpson, S. J. + Noble, S., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV99275.

Vis=4/11/1992 (simpson + noble) stable in heathland (simpson + noble).

Exeter Archaeology, 2002, Ball Hill (Site Visit). SDV351833.

Site visit on 5th April 2002, to ploughed area on Ball Hill adjacent to barrows. No finds were recovered or features identified. None of the barrows appear to have been affected.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 372 (Report - Survey). SDV359019.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, 24, Part 1; 140, Part 2: Gazetteer, Site No. 372 (Report - Survey). SDV101648.

Bowl barrow 8.5 metres north/south by 10.5 metres east/west by 0.8 metre maximum height, with rounded lumpy top. East side of mound drops away and may have been disturbed. Vehicle trackway against south edge of mound. This is the most northerly of a line of three closely spaced barrows which run north- northeast from the southeast field boundary (see also sites 370, 371).

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 372 (Archive - Survey). SDV358490.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 353 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Barrow 8.5 metres by 10.5 metres by 0.8 metres high.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY1794 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

An earthwork mound is visible.

Sims, R., Knight, S. & Houghton, E., 2020-2021, East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment (Interpretation). SDV363914.

The barrow is visible as an oval earthwork mound circa 8m by 7m on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8340 - East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment

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