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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bigbury TumuliCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.552 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Devon Type: Barrow Cemetery
Map Ref: SX667470
Latitude: 50.307838N Longitude: 3.873327W
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 |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
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Barrow Cemetery in Devon
Group of two plough-damaged round barrows and a long barrow.
Pastscape says - The Western mound is probably the remnant of a long barrow. It is of tapering form with the South-West end 37.5m wide and 0.4m high. The North-East end is 22m wide and 0.2m high, and the total length is 60m. A cropmark at the South-Wset end is probably that of a burial chamber; a flint core of Neolithic or Early Bronze age date has been found in the area of the cropmark.
The central mound is a bowl barrow between 29m and 34m in diameter and 0.8m high. The Eastern mound is slightly oval,between 43.5m and 50m in diameter and 1.7m high. The group is scheduled and now thankfully no longer ploughed.
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