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Summary

An oval, stony mound measuring 15.5 metres east-west and 10.5 metres north-south. It stands up to 1.1 metre high and was probably originally bowl-profiled. The northern slope is spit by a narrow path and a sorth-south slope across the top of the barrow has caused minor damage. It appears to be unexcavated. The mounds is crossed by a maintained drystone field wall, approaching from the south-east and turning west on the barrow. The wall is built over the mound and does not seem to have caused much damage.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1003296: Five barrows on Hamel Down

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NW23
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445083
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/5/2
• Old SAM County Ref: 369

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROUND BARROW (Constructed, Bronze Age - 2200 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307148.

Two barrows southerly cairn.1m high.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV307155.

Des=worksheet + sketch plan. (16/03/1982 (greeves) six substantial fenceposts have recently been driven into this barrow (worksheet).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX77NW23 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV309254.

(10/05/1960) Misshapen and grass and heather covered.

Grinsell, L. V., 1978, Dartmoor Barrows, Widecombe 3 (Article in Serial). SDV273224.

Beeson, M. M. R. + Masterman, M. C. H., 1979, An Archaeological Survey of Enclosed Land in Widecombe-In-The-Moor Parish, Vol V, 1037 (Report - Survey). SDV337078.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Not visible on RAF photos, 1946.

Brewer, D., 1986, A field guide to the boundary markers on and around Dartmoor, 19 (Monograph). SDV309252.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit, P. Pattison (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(27/07/1990) SX7064 7920: Two Barrows: two round barrows situated in a prominent position on the broad ridge of Hamel Down, in a shallow saddle between Hameldown Beacon to the south and Broad Barrow to the north. The north-south ridge-top track passes close to the east.
2. SX 7065 7918 The S barrow:-
An oval, stony mound measuring 15.5m
E-W and 10.5m N-S. It stands up to 1.1m high and was probably originally bowl-profiled. The N slope is spit by a narrow path and a N-S slope across the top of the barrow has caused minor damage. It appears to be unexcavated. The mounds is crossed by a maintained drystone field wall, approaching from the SE and turning W on the barrow. The wall is built over the mound and does not seem to have caused much damage.
This barrow appears to have been a target point for a reave, Fleming's Hameldon South (1978) (see SX 77 NW 74), approaching from the E and stopping 3.5m short of the mound. The reave line is continued W by the modern wall beyond the barrow.
Surveyed at 1:500.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset. (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

Ordnance Survey, 2017, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359962.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8658 - Challacombe, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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