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Alderman's Barrow (Round Barrow(s)) |
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Details of barrow on Pastscape [SS 83674233] Alderman's Barrow (NR) Alderman's Barrow, round barrow. Scheduled. Grinsell's Exford No 1, a bowl barrow 29 paces in diameter and 4.5 ft high. This is a disturbed bowl barrow. It is 1.4m high and has had a hole 0.7m deep dug into its top. (See GPs AO/65/138/7 & 8 Stereo pair). Resurveyed at 1:2500. The name Alderman's Barrow is a corruption of Owlaman's Barrow, and before that it was known as Osmund's Barrow. (4-5)Exford 1. Alderman's Barrow listed, details as Authy 3. It was named Osmundesburgh and variants in boundary perambulations 1219 - 1301, known as Owlaman's Burrow from 1651 to 1815 and as Alderman's Burrow or Barrow from 1782 onwards. (6) Alderman's Barrow lies at the north-west end of Almsworthy Common, on the boundary of the parishes of Luccombe, Porlock, Exford and Exmoor. It comprises a turf-covered, circular, flat-topped, earth and stone mound, 24 m in diameter, north-south, by 22 m; it is 1.4 m high. The barrow is largely intact and in good condition, and is now covered in dense heather and bracken. Several activities have taken place to disturb the original form of the barrow: 1. The creation of a road on its north side has clipped the edge of the barrow. 2. A sharp-sided, irregular pit, some 8 m across and 0.7 m deep has been dug into its centre. 3. There is an area of disturbance in the area of the south-west quadrant, in the form of a narrow trench which follows the base of the barrow scarp. Both 2 and 3 are probably the result of undocumented antiquarian activity, but may also be the product of robbing. Certainly 3 appears to be an attempt to ascertain whether the barrow has an encircling kerb. Some 4 m from the barrow on its north-west side is an Antiquity Star put up during WW2 to alert gunnery crews on the nearby ranges to the fact that an archaeological monument existed. Alderman's Barrow was surveyed during July 1996 as part of RCHME's West Exmoor Project.(7-8) Aldermans Barrow is a substantial earthwork clearly visible on many of the aerial photographs assessed as part of the Exmoor National Park National Mapping Programme (NMP) survey. The truncation of the northern edge of the earthwork and the central depression are apparent from the air, but the more subtle damage described above is obscured by the pervasive vegetation cover. (9-10) |
Posted by Chance16th December 2014ce |
| Substantial barrow 24m in diameter, marking one of the bounds of Exmoor Forest. It has had various recorded names in the past, including Osmundesburgh (1219) and Owlaman's Burrow. |
Posted by thesweetcheat15th January 2013ce |
The Wilmersham Common row (Stone Row / Alignment) |
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A stone row of 50 standing stones, located on the west-facing slopes of Honeycombe Hill. There is no evidence for a barrow or cairn at either end. It was previously alleged to represent the remains of a dilapidated field wall. More details of site on Pastscape |
Posted by Chance 8th July 2012ce |
Setta Barrow (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) |
| L.V.Grinsell says this is a very large round barrow, 100 feet in diameter and 7 1/2 feet in height. He also says it has a peristalith in good condition. The Devon / Somerset border appears to pass through it. It appears to be part of large cemetary group. I will be visiting this and other barrows in the area soon, photos and fieldnotes to follow. |
Posted by formicaant1st February 2008ce Edited 27th February 2011ce |
Whit Stones (Standing Stones) |
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The two stones are on the NE slope of Porlock Common. They're quite low, both less than a metre. One is decorated with an OS mark and stud, and they both lean a bit. A 13th century document describing the boundaries of the Royal Forest mentions them as the 'Whitestones'. Some more stones lie nearby at SS864461, and are believed to be the 'fif stones' mentioned in the same document, though there now seem to be three standing and one partly buried. One is inscribed with three sets of initials in an 18th? century hand. |
Posted by Rhiannon26th August 2005ce |
Elsworthy (Standing Stone / Menhir) |
| This stone, according to the Somerset Historic Environment record, is a "gritstone pillar 1.5m high, 0.6m wide and 0.4 m thick, which tapers slightly to a flat top". It had been enjoyed by the local cattle so much that they'd eroded around the base and eventually pushed it over. The local landowners and the National Park Authority re-erected it (it's now been given a cement base). Originally it had only been 40cm deep, and had some wedged stones as packing. It's thought to have had prehistoric significance rather than solely be a handy cattle-rubbing post. |
Posted by Rhiannon 13th May 2005ce |
Langridge Wood (Cist) |
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This Bronze Age cist is one of only seven to have been documented on Exmoor, only two of which survive. It is lined with slate slabs, and a large 5ft square capstone still partially covers its top. The mound that would have surrounded it was dug into in 1820 for road stone :( When the cist was disturbed a skeleton was found inside and this was generously (?) reinterred in the churchyard at nearby Treborough. (info from the scheduled monument record on Magic / Somerset Historic Environment Record). |
Posted by Rhiannon 19th April 2005ce |
Caratacus Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) |
| The surviving Latin text reads 'CARAACI' and 'NEPVS' = 'kinsman of Caratacus', and is thought to refer to a descendant of the famous rebel against the Romans in the 1st century AD. |
Posted by baza5th December 2004ce |
Culbone Stone (Christianised Site) |
| The Culbone Stone was re-discovered and re-erected in 1940AD, probably not in its original position. It has a similar shape to that of the stones in the nearby Culbone Hill Stone Row and is thought to have been taken from the row to be placed along a trackway leading down to Culbone church. The ring-cross was probably incised in the 6/7th centuries AD. |
Posted by baza 5th December 2004ce |
Dunkery Beacon (Cairn(s)) |
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I've not visited this site, but I understand that at 519 metres, Dunkery Beacon is the highest point on Exmoor (that's 1,706 feet if you're still using old money). The beacon is capped with two Bronze Age cairns. Kammer x |
Posted by Kammer11th February 2003ce |
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