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Summary

Bowl barrow about 32 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres high, with surrounding ditch.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1016971: Bowl barrow 700m NNW of West Greadon
• SHINE: Prehistoric barrow north east of Meddon
• SHINE: Prehistoric barrow north east of Meddon

Other References/Statuses

• MPP Archaeological Item Dataset: 149843
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS21NE/502
• Old SAM County Ref: 701
• Old SAM Ref: 32205
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS21NE11

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ancient Monuments, 1968 - 1969, Round Barrow Southeast of Meddon Plantation (Schedule Document). SDV341236.

Round barrow in corner of field of pasture, smoothed down by ploughing to 2.5 feet high and 34 yards in diameter.

Grinsell, L. V., 1970, The Barrows of North Devon, 121 (Article in Serial). SDV7849.

Bowl barrow. Diameter 30 paces, height 3.5 feet.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1977 - 2001, SS21NE11 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV8133.

1. Tumulus shown on 1963 6 inch Ordnance Survey map.
2. Bowl barrow under grass.
3. Site visit 16th October 1977. Round barrow, probably of bowl type with no evidence of ditch, situated in pasture. Approximately 24.0 metres diameter and 0.9 metres high.

Devon Committee for Rescue Archaeology, 1979 - 1981, North Devon Barrow Survey, DCRA ND50 (Archive - Survey). SDV341310.

Site visit 16th October 1979. Low mound in pasture field. Flattened and spread and heavily poached by cattle. No sign of ditch but trampling of field precludes spotting such a feature. Fair condition.

Allden, A., 1981, A Study of some Devon Barrows and their Diminishing Future, ND50 (Report - non-specific). SDV339662.

Timms, S. C., 1981, Barrow (Personal Comment). SDV8135.

Low mound in pasture. Tractor track runs over mound. Hedge to west has been removed.

Weston, S., 1982, List of Field Monument Warden Visits (Un-published). SDV345675.

Bayer, O. J., 1996, Barrows in the Torridge District of North West Devon: A Study in Distribution and Location, Hartland 20 (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV319515.

Bayer gives NGR SS28601846 for this barrow.

Gerrard, H., 1998, Bowl Barrow 700m NNW of West Greadon, 149843 (Un-published). SDV8137.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1999, Bowl Barrow 700m NNW of West Greadon (Schedule Document). SDV339668.

Barrow situated in an elevated upland location on the watershed between two valleys of tributaries of the River Torridge. The barrow survives as an oval mound which measures 32.4 metres long from east to west, 29.1 metres wide from north to south and is 0.8 metres high. The surrounding ditch from which material to construct the mound was derived survives as a buried feature approximately 5 metres wide.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Tumulus marked.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4415 - Devon Barrow Survey

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