Bowl barrow on Beaford Moor, 400m north east of Cupper's Piece
List Entry Summary
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Name: Bowl barrow on Beaford Moor, 400m north east of Cupper's Piece
List entry Number: 1015140
Location
The monument may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Torridge
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Beaford
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: Not applicable to this List entry.
Date first scheduled: 18-Nov-1996
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System: RSM
UID: 28616
Asset Groupings
This list entry does not comprise part of an Asset Grouping. Asset Groupings are not part of the official record but are added later for information.
List entry Description
Summary of Monument
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Reasons for Designation
Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments
dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most
examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as
earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple
burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often
acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar,
although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form
and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl
barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring
across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are
a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable
variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period
and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of
protection.
Despite limited plough damage, the bowl barrow on Beaford Moor survives
comparatively well and contains archaeological and environmental information
relating to the barrow and its surrounding landscape. This barrow forms part
of a group lying on the watershed between the Rivers Taw and Torridge.
History
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Details
This monument includes a bowl barrow situated on an exposed hilltop on the
watershed between the River Torridge to the west and River Taw to the east.
The barrow survives as a circular flat topped mound which measures 16.4m in
diameter and is 0.6m high. The ditch from which material to construct the
barrow was quarried surrounds the mound and survives as a c.2m wide buried
feature.
A group of three barrows lying to the south east of this monument are the
subject of a separate scheduling (SM 28605).
MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.
It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features,
considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
Selected Sources
Other
Devon County Sites and Monuments Register, SS51SE2, (1989)
MPP fieldwork by H. Gerrard, (1995)
National Grid Reference: SS 58196 14519
Map
© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2018. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions.
The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1015140 .pdf
The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay.
This copy shows the entry on 23-Apr-2018 at 09:12:54.
End of official listing