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Summary

Prehistoric bowl barrow to the north of Beech Hill Farm

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019545: Bowl barrow 430m north west of Upcott Cross
• SHINE: Prehistoric bowl barrow north of Beech Hill Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 437334
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX39SE/4
• Old SAM County Ref: 407
• Old SAM Ref: 34263
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX39SE4

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

'Barrow' shown as a small circular earthwork on 19th century map.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'Tumulus' shown on early 20th century map.

Royal Air Force, 1946, 3G/TUD/UK/146, 5314-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDV346040.

Other details: Part 4.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950 - 1951, SX39SE4 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV346039.

Site visited on 3rd March 1951. Possibly a bowl barrow in good state of preservation but appears to have been ploughed recently. Traces of ditch to the north. No evidence of a berm. Approximate diameter of 40 metres by 1.2 metres high. Other details: Photographs and Plan.

Ministry of Works, 1958, Round Barrow at Beech Hill Farm (Schedule Document). SDV346037.

Round barrow at Beech Hill Farmunder crop but about 20 foot (6.01 metres) diameter and 3 foot (0.91 metrers) high with the ditch not visible. Other details: Monument 407.

Weston, S., 1983, List of Field Monument Warden Visits 1983 (Un-published). SDV343247.

Grinsell, L. V., 1983, The Barrows of South and East Devon, 30 (Article in Serial). SDV337013.

Bayer, O. J., 1996, Barrows in the Torridge District of North West Devon: A Study in Distribution and Location (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV319515.

Other details: Broadwoodwidger 3.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2001, Bowl Barrow 430 metres north-west of Upcott Cross (Schedule Document). SDV346038.

This monument includes a bowl barrow situated on a prominent upland ridge overlooking the valley of a tributary to the River Carey and with commanding views to both Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. The monument survives as a circular mound which measures 35 metres in diameter and 1.1 metres high. The mound is surrounded by an outer quarry ditch from which material to construct the mound was derived. This survives as a buried feature measuring approximately 3 metres wide. Bowl barrows are funerary monuments dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age between 2400-1500 BC. This bowl barrow survives well despite reduction in its height through cultivation and will contain archaeological information relating to its construction and use as well as evidence about the local environment in the prehistoric period. Other details: Monument 34263.

National Monuments Record, 2010, 437334 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV346041.

Bronze Age bowl barrow surrounded by a ring ditch located 430 metres north-west of Upcott Cross on an upland ridge overlooking a tributary valley to the River Carey.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

'Tumulus' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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