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<< Our Photo Pages >> Centery Farm Tumuli - Barrow Cemetery in England in Devon

Submitted by AngieLake on Tuesday, 28 July 2015  Page Views: 2551

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Centery Farm Tumuli Alternative Name: Bittadon Tumuli; Centery Lane Tumuli
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 2.781 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Devon Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Ilfracombe  Nearest Village: West Down
Map Ref: SS543427
Latitude: 51.164938N  Longitude: 4.085211W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by AngieLake : A view across the field to the line of shallow tumuli on the ridge (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Devon

I'd visited West Down village and was heading off towards Parracombe when I noticed this large cluster of barrows on an old OS map, so thought I'd investigate.
[Regards 'Access 5']: There isn't disabled access to this site, but you can drive up a narrow country lane where you can see the barrows in a field (full of sheep on the day I drove along Centery Lane). I was tempted to select 'in the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find', but once you find somewhere to pull off the road you can actually look over a hedge and see them. I found a large gateway to barns on the right-hand side and the photos were taken opposite there.
One would not want to obstruct a farmer's gateway access to his fields.

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Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by Iain_P : The largest of the mounds, at SS 5426 4272 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by Iain_P : Like Angie, I saw these tumuli marked on an old map and thought I'd investigate in passing. Unlike Angie though, access to the field was really easy for us, as the main gate to the field seemed to be set permanently open, and on the modern map, the site was listed as a camp site so we walked onto the field and got a close look at them. The field was covered in freshly cut grass, so there was cer... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by AngieLake : A pity it wasn't possible to get a closer look on 9th June. (One for the men to try!) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by AngieLake : Another zoomed in shot of the shallow barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Centery Farm Tumuli
Centery Farm Tumuli submitted by AngieLake : A zoomed in shot of one of the shallow barrows. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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