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Summary

A group of five mounds have been interpreted as round barrows forming part of a barrow cemetery. It is possible the mounds are geological in origin.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019787: Five round barrows 570m south of Hope Cove, forming part of a round barrow cemetery

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: 1344986
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX63NE/58
• Old SAM Ref: 33773

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• NON ANTIQUITY? (Undated)
• BARROW (Bronze Age - 2200 BC to 701 BC (Between))

Full description

Ancient Monuments, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV178489.

Vis=est -/-/2000 (ancient monuments) 5 round barrows 570m s of hope cove, forming part of a round barrow cemetery.

AM, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV178490.

A loose cluster in a rough nw-se alignment, the 3 to the n being in close proximity. The nw barrow is 25m in diam, and survives up to 0.8m high. To e of these is a third barrow 21m in diam, up to 1.2m high, while 63m to its se is a fourth barrow, 36m diam, up to 0.9m high. A fifth barrow 66m to w is sited on a natural rise and is 16m diam, up to 0.3m high. Ditches survive as buried features (am).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV178491.

Des=ancient monuments/(-/-/2000)/as above.

Environment Agency, 2007, LiDAR data JPEG image (1 metre resolution), LIDAR SX6739 Environment Agency D0079352 31-MAR-2007 (Cartographic). SDV351410.

Three or four possible mounds are identifiable.

Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R., 2013-2014, South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project (Interpretation). SDV351146.

The mounds recorded by the above authority are not clearly identifiable on the aerial photographs available to the survey. Three or four low and irregularly shaped mounds are identifiable on images derived from Lidar data acquired in 2007, but do not appear convincingly archaeological in character. It is possible the mounds are geological in origin.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV178489	Report - Survey: Ancient Monuments.
SDV178490	Migrated Record: AM.
SDV178491	Migrated Record:
SDV351146	Interpretation: Hegarty, C. + Knight, S. + Sims, R.. 2013-2014. South Devon Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Project. AC Archaeology Report. Digital.
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SDV351410	Cartographic: Environment Agency. 2007. LiDAR data JPEG image (1 metre resolution). Environment Agency LiDAR data. Digital. LIDAR SX6739 Environment Agency D0079352 31-MAR-2007.

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6127 - Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme (NMP) for South-West England - South Coast Devon (Ref: ACD618)
• EDV6587 - Archaeological Assessment of Land between Bolt Heat and Bolt Tail

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