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Summary

One of three Late Neolithic to Bronze Age bowl barrows, on a gentle south facing slope near the head of a valley, to the west of Borough Farm.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019317: Three bowl barrows 140m west of Borough Farm
• SHINE: Three prehistoric barrows north west of Borough Farm

Other References/Statuses

• National Record of the Historic Environment: 441053
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX64NW/41/1
• Old SAM Ref: 33754
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX64NW 35

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BOWL BARROW (Late Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 3000 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Royal Air Force, 1945, RAF/106G/UK/967, RAF/106G/UK/967 RS 4146-4147 01-NOV-1945 (Aerial Photograph). SDV351060.

An oval mound is visible as an earthwork.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1987 - 1989, SX64NW35 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV343397.

Site visit 23rd March 1987. Two large earthen round barrows spaced approx 10 metres apart are situated on a gentle slope of a south facing hillside at 80 metres. They lie in a regularly cultivated field and have been spread by deep ploughing; field hedges immediately to the north and east were effaced in the late 1960s and are now traceable only as cropmarks. Both mounds are apparently composed of soil with a low density of small stone similar to that occuring over the surrounding area. Approx 34 metres in diameter and on average 0.8 metres high with a maximum height of 1.2 metres on the downhill side.

Environment Agency, 1998-2017, LiDAR DTM data (1m resolution) EA: South Devon Coast to Dartmoor, LIDAR SX6049 Environment Agency DTM 01-JAN-1998 to 31-MAY-2017 (Cartographic). SDV361470.

An oval mound is visible as an earthwork.

Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2001, Three Bowl Barrows 140 Metres West of Borough Farm (Schedule Document). SDV343399.

One of three Late Neolithic to Bronze Age bowl barrows in a broadly south-west to north-east alignment, sited on a gentle south facing slope near the head of a valley. The central mound is 42 metres in diameter by up to 1 metre high. The ditches from which material was quarried during the mounds' construction survive as buried features measuring 4 metres wide. There is a further barrow 500 metres to the south-south-east.

Bluesky, 2006 - 2007, Bluesky aerial photographs 2006 - 2007 (Aerial Photograph). SDV341189.

English Heritage, 2009, Heritage at Risk Register 2009: South West, 107 (Report - non-specific). SDV342694.

Extensive significant problems. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

English Heritage, 2010, Heritage at Risk Register 2010: South West, 100 (Report - non-specific). SDV344777.

English Heritage, 2011, Heritage at Risk Register 2011: South West, 105 (Report - non-specific). SDV355280.

Extensive significant problems. Declining. Principal vulnerability arable ploughing.

Hegarty, C., Knight, S. and Sims, R., 2019-2020, The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping Survey. Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (AI&M, formerly NMP) (Interpretation). SDV362982.

An oval mound, circa 42m long by 39m wide, is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs taken from 1945 onwards and on visualisations derived from lidar data captured between 1998 and 2017. The earthwork is one of three adjacent mounds situated on the south facing slope of a spur which are interpreted as possible Bronze Age barrows.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8098 - The South Devon Coast to Dartmoor Aerial Investigation and Mapping (formerly NMP) Survey, Area 2, Avon Valley to Plymouth (Ref: ACD2040)

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