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Summary

Bowl barrow, 22 metres diameter and 0.7 metres high, with surrounding ditch. An outlier of the round barrow cemetery at Heathfield to the east. The barrow has been transcribed as part of the Tamar Valley NMP project.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1020073: Bowl barrow 340m east of The Firs, forming part of a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield
• SHINE: Prehistoric barrow at Heathfield, east of Haye Down Farm

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX47NE/5
• Old SAM Ref: 34283
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX47NE5

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, 142 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Site visit 13/06/1971. Barrow with flattish top in rough pasture. Possibly ditched. 21 metres diameter, 0.8 metres high.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1983 - 2004, SX47NE5 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV342367.

1. Site visit 06/10/1950. A large, flat-topped bowl barrow (A). 22.0 metres diameter, 0.8 metres high. The barrow is in fairly good condition but has been despoiled on the west side revealing dark loam containing many fragments of local fine-grained sandstone and a few pieces of white spar close to the present turf covering. There are also several bands of charcoal visible. Slight traces of surrounding ditch.
2. Visited by L.V. Grinsell in 1971.
3. Site visit 07/11/1983. One of two barrows situated on a slight slope below the crest of the hill. Barrow A is a fine platform barrow, 22.0 metres diameter and 0.8 metres high. Rabbit scrapes and a slight mutilation shown the contents to be of stone and earth. There are faint traces of a ditch, clearest on the northeast and southwest sides where is it is not so much obscured by plough lines. Barrow crossed by narrow rig and furrow, traceable over much of the former common. Other details: Barrow A. Plan.

Greeves, T. A. P., 1996, Personal comment to A. M. Dick (Personal Comment). SDV342369.

T. Greeves reported, following a site visit in June 1996, that the barrow is still much as it was in 1983.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2001, Bowl Barrow 340 metres East of The Firs, Forming Part of a Round Barrow Cemetery at Heathfield (Schedule Document). SDV342365.

Bowl barrow situated on a high and prominent upland ridge, an outlier to a round barrow cemetery at Heathfield to the east. The barrow, which straddles a parish boundary, comprises a circular mound, 22 metres in diameter and up to 0.7 metres high. Surrounding the mound is the quarry ditch from whch material to construct the mound was derived. This is traceable on the ground and measures up to a maximum of 4.4 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep. The mound is largely flat-topped, albeit slightly uneven in appearance with steep sides. Some animal scrapes reveal that the mound is composed of dark gritty loam and small stones. On the western side is a depression which measures up to 2 metres wide and 0.1 metres deep which may represent an old excavation trench. See schedule document for full details. Other details: Monument No. 34282.

Cornwall Archaeological Unit, 2001-2002, Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Transcriptions and Database Records, SX4579/1-5, NMR2113/0013-4&0018-0020 (Interpretation). SDV346287.

An earthwork mound of a prehistoric barrow is visible on aerial photographs.

Whiteaway, T., 2004, Barrows, Tumuli, Standing Stones, Beacon at Lamerton (Report - Assessment). SDV342328.

Depicted as 'Larkborough' on the 1835 'Heathfield Inclosure' map.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 118 (Report - non-specific). SDV342694.

Generally unsatisfactory with major localised problems. Principal vulnerability plant growth.

English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010: South West, 111 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2016, Backlog Recording of the Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme Survey (Personal Comment). SDV359374.

Only part of the photo reference is given in the transcription attributes, so the date of the photograph is not known.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6911 - Tamar Valley National Mapping Programme

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