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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Broad Down
Country: England County: Devon Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Honiton  Nearest Village: Farway St
Map Ref: SY173940  Landranger Map Number: 192
Latitude: 50.739699N  Longitude: 3.173375W
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.
 no data 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.
 no data 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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Broad Down
Broad Down submitted by MattImpey : Two of many barrows on Broad Down. These two are in a farmers field (approx. SY1719440) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery of around twenty-four round barrows in Devon

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Broad Down
Broad Down submitted by EbenMC : Barrows from the linear alignment situated on the side of a small pond, taken on 6/11/23 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broad Down
Broad Down submitted by EbenMC : Barrows situated within the linear alignment of barrows on the NE side of Broad Down. Taken on 6/11/23 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broad Down
Broad Down submitted by EbenMC : The first barrow within the linear arrangement of barrows on the NE side of Broad Down. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broad Down
Broad Down submitted by davep : This is a plan of the Broad Down cairns produced by Richard Hansford Worth in 1899. It accompanies the 18th Barrow Committee Report of the Devonshire Association along with a description of excavation of 3 of the barrows including the finding of a bronze spear head. Worth, R. Hansford, Barrow Report 18, T.D.A. Vol.31 pp. (1899) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broad Downs Bowl Barrow
Broad Downs Bowl Barrow submitted by PurpleEmperor : Broad Downs Bowl Barrow is situated adjacent to the Devil's Kneading Trough grassland valley in the North Downs. Here's a view down the Devil's Kneading Trough and out across the Kentish countryside. The barrow is located at the top left of this photo.

Broad Downs Bowl Barrow
Broad Downs Bowl Barrow submitted by PurpleEmperor : Broad Downs Bowl Barrow view to the south west.

Broad Downs Bowl Barrow
Broad Downs Bowl Barrow submitted by PurpleEmperor : Broad Downs Bowl Barrow looking towards Coldharbour Road.

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 707m S 187° Broad Down Stone Circle (SY172933)
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 6.5km ESE 108° Seaton Down Camp* Hillfort (SY23449185)
 7.3km E 88° Colyton Church Cross* Ancient Cross (SY24599409)
 8.2km SW 215° Sidmouth Museum* Museum (SY125874)
 9.0km SW 226° Seven Stones (Devon)* Stone Circle (SY10758787)
 9.3km ESE 105° Hawksdown Camp Hillfort (SY26299143)
 10.0km N 1° Dumpdon Great Camp* Hillfort (ST176040)
 10.1km NNE 31° Stockland Great Castle* Hillfort (ST22620262)
 10.7km SW 220° High Peak* Ancient Village or Settlement (SY103859)
 10.9km E 89° Musbury Castle* Hillfort (SY282941)
 10.9km NW 326° Hembury Fort* Hillfort (ST113031)
 11.2km NNE 30° Stockland Little Castle Hillfort (ST22980362)
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 12.3km NNW 340° Row Barrow (Devon)* Round Barrow(s) (ST13180561)
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 14.0km NE 50° Membury Castle Hillfort (ST282028)
 15.5km WSW 244° Woodbury Castle* Hillfort (SY032874)
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Re: Broad Down by coldrum on Tuesday, 30 March 2010
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Re: Broad Down, Farway Prehistoric Cup by AngieLake on Monday, 25 August 2008
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The rare and beautiful black shale prehistoric 'Farway Cup' held by Exeter City Museum (see site page 'Royal Albert Memorial Museum', currently closed for refurbishment until Spring 2010) was found during the 1868 excavations of a barrow at Broad Down, Farway, by the Rev. Richard Kirwan, the rector of the local parish of Gittisham.
Quoting from 'Treasures of Ancient Devon', Devon Books, 1996 editon:

"The barrow displayed an interesting sequence of funerary practice which Kirwan interpreted as follows: first, a levelled platform of flints had been laid on the old ground surface; it displayed signs of burning (probably of burnt brushwood or furze). Above this was a bed of charcoal which Kirwan saw as a funerary pyre. This contained nodules of red ochre and iron pyrites 'which occurred in a quantity suggesting deliberate collection', and on which a deposit of calcined human bone had been placed. The cup must have been placed in the mound after the cremated bone; it lay close to it, but slightly higher in the mound. It is unburnt. A large barrow was then erected over the deposit."
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