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Summary

One of two Bronze Age bowl barrows north of Natson Farm, part of a complex of ritual and funerary monuments centred around the village of Bow.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1015476: Two bowl barrows 250m north of Natson Farm
• SHINE: Three Bronze Age bowl barrows south of Natson Mill

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 899917
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS70SW/57
• Old SAM Ref: 28638

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Devon County Council, Devon Air Photograph Transcriptions (Cartographic). SDV344181.

National Monuments Record, SS7101, 4-5, 15-18, 21-23, 27-28. (Aerial Photograph). SDV58658.

Griffith, F. M., 1984, DAP/AT, 6a-8 (Aerial Photograph). SDV41847.

Unknown, 1987, DCC/PTY, 7453-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDV343176.

Other details: Colour.

Griffith, F. M., 1988, DAP/KU, 10-12 (Aerial Photograph). SDV53186.

Griffith, F. M., 1989, DAP/MB, 12-14 (Aerial Photograph). SDV339116.

Griffith, F. M., 1989, DAP/NA, 2-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDV47339.

Simpson, S. J., 1991, Devon Post-Reconnaissance Fieldwork Project (Un-published). SDV342166.

Site visits 28/2/1991and 24/4/1991. Broad low mound, approximately 1.5- 1.7 metres high, on fairly low lying flat area sloping down to east and up to south-west. Ring ditch may be built on slight natural hillock, otherwise survives as a very pronounced mound, spread beyond extent of ring ditch.

Unknown, 1991, Untitled Source (Unattributed Sites and Monuments Register Entry). SDV343174.

Large ring ditch - circa 40 metres diameter - observed as cropmark south of Natson Mill by F. M. Griffith in 1984. Darker cropmark within indicates that vestiges of a barrow mound survive. In 1987 observed as ring ditch only, in ripe crop.

Simpson, S. J., 1991, Untitled Source, AA 2, 4-5 (Ground Photograph). SDV343177.

Horner, B., 1994, DAP/WK, 0-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDV321066.

Miller, A., 1996, RCHME Aerial Photograph Primary Recording Project (Interpretation). SDV53184.

Gerrard, S., 1996, Two Bowl Barrows 250 metres North of Natson Farm, 139595 (Un-published). SDV343178.

Eastern of two round barrows. Lies 240 metres north of Natson Farm. This barrow forms part of a complex of ritual and funerary monuments centred around the village of Bow. The area is also associated with the placename `Nymet' which is thought to have sacred Celtic significance. It survives as a circular mound which measures 20 metres in diameter and is 1.3 metres high. The ditch from which material was quarried to construct the mound, surrounds it and is preserved as a buried feature which is clearly visible on aerial photographs. A flint blade and fragment were collected during the fieldwalking of this area in 1991.

Department of National Heritage, 1997, Two Bowl Barrows 250 metres North of Natson Farm (Schedule Document). SDV343179.

This monument includes two bowl barrows, aligned broadly east-west, 250 metres north of Natson Farm, Bow and 140 metres south-east of the River Yeo in a low lying field occupying a slightly raised spur of land, which form part of a complex of ritual and funerary monuments centred around the village of Bow.

Caseldine, C. J. + Coles, B. J. + Griffith, F. M. + Hatton, J. M., 2000, Conservation or Change? Human Influence on the Mid Devon Landscsape, 61 (Article in Monograph). SDV343175.

National Monuments Record, 2009, 899917 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV343180.

Two Bronze Age bowl barrows. The eastern barrow survives as a circular mound around which is a ditch which survies as a buried feature. The western barrow and its associated quarry ditch both survive as buried features. Other details: SS70SW 35.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 102 (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, 94 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 89 (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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