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Summary

The eroded remains of nine possible barrows located on an east-west ridge are visible as earthworks on Lidar imagery. However, the field with the largest number of features is called Steel Iron Moor on the 19th century Tithe Apportionment and an alternative interpretation of the mounds is that they represent the remains of mining waste.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW CEMETERY (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC (Between) to 701 BC (Between))
• SPOIL HEAP (XV to XIX - 1401 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Field 2514 is named as Steel Iron Moor on the Swimbridge Tithe Apportionment.

Environment Agency WMS, 2022, Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DTM 2022 - 1m (Cartographic). SDV365447.

Circular earthworks visible in a broad east-west linear formation to the south of Summermoor Lane with another mound visible to the north.

Kaye, S., 2024, Possible tumuli on Summer Moor (Interpretation). SDV365967.

The eroded remains of nine possible barrows on Summermoor are visible as earthworks on Lidar imagery. They are located on an east to west ridge of generally level ground and would originally have been mainly visible to the west. Eight of the mounds are on the south side of Summer Moor Lane and one is to the north. They range in diameter from c22.0m to 12.0m and are only c.10-30cm high. They lie on broadly east-west raised features which may be sandstone horizon/stringers within the mud-silt-stone Crackington Formation.
Alternatively, the mounds may be the remains of mining waste; the field with the largest number of features is called 'Steel Iron Moor' on the Tithe Map.
Differences in the colour of rough pasture seen on available aerial photos are indicative of the presence of the mounds although they do not show as specific cropmarks.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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