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Summary

Group of three Prehistoric bowl barrows south-east of Beaford Moor

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1015146: Three bowl barrows 545m east of Cupper's Piece

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 33599
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS51SE/3
• Old SAM Ref: 28605
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS51SE2

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW CEMETERY (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC)

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Three 'Tumuli' shown on 19th century map in a field to the east of Cupper's Piece.

Unknown, 1922, Untitled Source (Un-published). SDV344893.

Three very much worn down barrows, one being barely distinguishable. All under pasture.

Royal Air Force, 1948, CPE/UK/2521, 4121-2 (Aerial Photograph). SDV344887.

Grinsell, L. V., 1970, The Barrows of North Devon, 109 (Article in Serial). SDV7849.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1973, SS51SE2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV344892.

Site visited on 3rd July and 27th September 1973.Three bowl barrows south-east of Beaford Moor all under pasture and two of them badly mutilated.

Griffith, F. M., 1984, Untitled Source (Personal Comment). SDV344895.

Site visited on 12th May 1984.

Bayer, O. J., 1996, Barrows in the Torridge District of North West Devon: A Study in Distribution and Location (Undergraduate Dissertation). SDV319515.

Other details: Ashreigney 1-3.

Department of National Heritage, 1996, Three Bowl Barrows 545m east of Cupper's Piece (Schedule Document). SDV344898.

Three bowl barrows 545 metres east of Cupper's Piece. The monument includes three bowl barrows situated on an exposed hilltop on the watershed between the River Torridge to the west and the River Taw to the east.

National Monuments Record, 2010, 33599 (National Monuments Record Database). SDV344897.

Three bowl barrows situated on an exposed hilltop on the watershed between the River Torridge to the west and River Taw to the east. Other details: SS51SE2.

Ordnance Survey, 2010, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV344030.

Three 'Tumuli' shown on modern mapping.

Webb, P., 2020, Land at Oakmead, Dolton, Torridge: Heritage Impact Assessment and Geophysical Survey (Report - Geophysical Survey). SDV364573.

The site is located on the western edge of the parish of Ashreigney, approximately 4.5km west-north-west of Ashreigney and 2.5km north-east of Dolton. It comprises two rectangular fields covering an area of c.8ha situated on the upland of the Torridge river valley. The surrounding landscape contains prehistoric ritual monuments and findspots which suggest that it formed part of a wider funerary landscape; whilst it also formed part of a prehistoric, medieval and post-medieval settled agricultural landscape. Until the 19th century the proposal site formed part of Riddlecombe Moor, an area of open moorland.

During the geophysical survey, it was noted that the three sub-oval earthwork mounds which form Scheduled bowl barrow monument SAM 1015146, appeared in good, though partially ploughed-out condition.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV9202 - Heritage Impact Assessment and Geophysical Survey: Land at Oakmead, Dolton, Torridge (Ref: 201217)

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