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Summary

Possible site of former barrow, near Castle Close, Branscombe.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY18NE/99

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARROW (Lower Palaeolithic to Roman - 698000 BC to 409 AD (Between))

Full description

NMR, CITING OS, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV135725.

Vis=4/4/1989 (os) a mound or tumulus was destroyed by quarrying operations at a place called castle close in branscombe parish around 1845. In or near it was a slab of stone c3ft x 2.5ft and 9in thick, covering a cavity containing bones. In 1862 the slab formed the floor of the most southerly of two lime kilns nearby. Hutchinson's plan shows the site of the mound immediately s of "castle close" earthwork, in a position which would place it inside his putative quadrangular enclosure. Recorded by grinsell as branscombe 9 at roughly sy195897 (nmr, citing os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV135726.

Nmr=sy18ne20.

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, 175 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Recorded site lies within putative quadrangular enclosure. Additional approximate NGR given as SY 195 897. Field called Castle Close on Tithe Map/Tithe Apportionment lies further to eas at SY 1968.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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