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Summary

A cairn, apparently unrecorded, was exposed at above ngr during re-afforestation ploughing in 1964-5. Excavations in 1966 by sheila pollard revealed a possibly-robbed circular flint cairn. It covered a heavily ploughed central oval structure of flints and a possible cover stone. Five excentric pits contained wood carbon. Under the cairn was an internal ring of post holes and a central hole. No bones or grave goods were found. Flint core and 5 flakes in ra museum, exeter (pollard). Vis=11/11/1975 (os). Not located in dense plantation. Vis=23/2/1982 (os). Cairn seems to have been entirely removed during excavation, but its site can be deduced from unplanted indentation in plantation.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19NE/50

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Prehistoric - 698000 BC to 42 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV121922.

Pollard, s. H. M. /pdas/25(1967)19,32-39/plan.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV121923.

Osa=sy19ne23.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV121924.

Grinsell, l. V. /pdas/41(1983)37.

Pollard, S. H. M., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV96893.

A cairn, apparently unrecorded, was exposed at above ngr during re-afforestation ploughing in 1964-5. Excavations in 1966 by sheila pollard revealed a possibly-robbed circular flint cairn. It covered a heavily ploughed central oval structure of flints and a possible cover stone. Five excentric pits contained wood carbon. Under the cairn was an internal ring of post holes and a central hole. No bones or grave goods were found. Flint core and 5 flakes in ra museum, exeter (pollard). Vis=11/11/1975 (os). Not located in dense plantation. Vis=23/2/1982 (os). Cairn seems to have been entirely removed during excavation, but its site can be deduced from unplanted indentation in plantation.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, Site No. 616 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Cairn excavated in 1966. Possibly completely removed.
SMR.

Bluesky International, 2016, LiDAR DTM data (0.5m resolution) Blackdown Hills and East Devon AONBs: 3 transects, LIDAR SY1697 Bluesky International DTM 30-APR-2016 and 04-MAY-2016 (Cartographic). SDV359714.

The barrow is not visible.

Sims, R., Knight, S. & Houghton, E., 2020-2021, East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment (Interpretation). SDV363914.

The barrow is not visible as an earthwork on images derived from lidar data captured in 2016.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8340 - East Devon AONB Lidar Assessment and Desk based Assessment

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