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Summary

Site of Simon's Barrow shown on 19th century map.

Location

Protected Status

• SHINE: Site of Simons Barrow shown on 19th century map

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST11NW/6

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD (Between))

Full description

UNTIL 1870!, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58839.

Simond's barrow. A round barrow destroyed about 1870. The burial place of a british chief named simond or symmond, killed in a battle near here. It was known also as the 'devil's lapful' from a belief that the devil brought the stones here in his apron. A crock of gold was concealed there. As fast as the stones were removed, they returned to their place of their own accord (until 1870!). Five small mounds (barrows?), now probably destroyed, formed when the devil's apron strings broke, were known as the 'devil's glove'.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58845.

Grinsell, l. V. /north devon barrows/(1970)103.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58846.

Grinsell, l. V. /folklore of prehistoric sites in britain/(1976)97.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58847.

Osa=st11nw6.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58848.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)617.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58849.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/28(1970)121.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58850.

Lackington, j. /memoirs/(1792)469-470.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV58851.

Mathews, f. W. /magna brittania/6 part 1(1822)353.

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

Vis=4/1/1962 (os) no remains. Site now under young crops.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV1004.

Vis=-/-/1969 (grinsell) simons burrow said to have been a cairn destroyed about 1870 by james bale, a road contractor for road material two fields south of the ridgeway and the county boundary and north of simons burrow farm.

Lysons, D. + Lysons, S., 1822, Magna Britannica (Monograph). SDV323771.

Vis=-/-/1821 (lysons) a large cairn called simonsborough at north extremity of parish.

Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, 1992 - 1993, Blackdown Hills Survey Archive (Archive - Survey). SDV324187.

Site visit 1st September 1992. As described by Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, 12, Part 1; 11, Part 1; 87, Part 2: Gazetteer, Site No. 531 (Report - Survey). SDV101648.

Simond’s Barrow (from which the current placenames Simonsburrow/Symonsborough derives). It is described as a large cairn mostly destroyed in circa 1870; remaining stone cleared from site in circa 1947–8 prior to ploughing. The site lies to north of the survey area.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 531 (Archive - Survey). SDV358490.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003, East Devon Heathlands Archaeological Survey, Site No. 531 (Report - Survey). SDV359019.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

'Simons Burrow' marked.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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