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Summary

A barrow containing a cist destroyed during agricultural operations revealed a cavity under a heap of stones containing quantity of ashes, some burnt earth and four of five celts. Three of the celts, thought by the ploughman to be sherds, were built into the dry wall with the stones. The interment had evidently been covered with a rough-built dome of stones. Wing flanged axe, minimal stop, high flanges running down side of blade. Length 150mm, blade width 58mm, butt width 25mm.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX88NW18
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 447186
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NW/104
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NW/25

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CIST (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
• CREMATION (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))
• ROUND BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV302737.

Des=cannington ms(c1840)/in exeter city library.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV302739.

Shortt, w. T. /collectanes curiosa antiqua dumnonia/(1842).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV302740.

Way, a. /arch journal/26(1869)344/antiquities of bronze found in devonshire.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV281456.

Des=miles, t. /pers comm.

Worth, R. H., 1941, 60th Report on Barrows, 57-58 (Article in Serial). SDV302703.

On Thomas Hamlyn's Estate at Barn, near Christow, a barrow containing a cist was destroyed during agricultural operations. A cavity under a heap of stones in which was a quantity of ashes, some burnt earth and four of five celts. Three of the celts, thought by the ploughman to be sherds, were built into the dry wall with the stones, and two were given to the owner, Thomas Hamlyn of Barne, Christow. The interment had evidently been covered with a rough-built dome of stones.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953, SX88NW18 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV302734.

(11/06/1953). No information was obtained during field investigations as to the site of this barrow, or the present whereabouts of the 'celts'.

Pearce, S. M., 1983, The Bronze Age Metalwork of South Western Britain, 438 (Monograph). SDV341822.

Wing flanged axe, minimal stop, high flanges running down side of blade. Length 150mm, blade width 58mm, butt width 25mm.

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

No barrow visible on 1946 aerial photographs.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV2236 - AXE HEAD (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Events: none recorded

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