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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Small Down Barrows
Country: England County: Somerset Type: Barrow Cemetery

Map Ref: ST666406 Landranger Map Number: 183
Latitude: 51.163665N Longitude: 2.479039W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1	Completely destroyed

3 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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no data Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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SolarMegalith visited on 28th Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

**Small Down Barrows** submitted by SolarMegalith : One of the best preserved Bronze Age bowl barrows inside Small Down Camp 9photo taken on April 2012). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Barrow Cemetery in Somerset

The barrow cemetery inside Small Down hillfort consists of 14 tightly clustered Bronze Age bowl barrows. Sherds of the Iron Age pottery were discovered in the quarry ditches, which is probably connected with construction of the hillfort. The best preserved barrows reach up to 1.5 m in height.

Access to the barrows is relatively easy, they are very obvious in western part of the hillfort's interior.

Note: An urn from one of the barrows can be found in Taunton Museum.
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ST6640 : Small Down hill fort by Peter Facey — by Peter Facey
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ST6640 : Small Down Cottages by Peter Facey — by Peter Facey
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