This is a somewhat shy, retiring monument located right beside the road heading towards the wonders of Rough Tor from the former WW2 RAF airfield upon Davidstow Moor... so easily missed/ignored.
That, however, would be a travesty you’ll regret as soon as you get back home... for these three closely related (if not entirely co-joined) bowl barrows – hence ‘Triple Barrow’ – form a very rare monument, indeed.... in fact, I’m only aware of one other (seriously overgrown) example way done in Surrey, upon Turners Hill, near Farnham (although there are three co-joined round cairns at Pen y Garn-goch, near Llanwrtyd Wells). Are there any more?
So, travellers should watch out for this slumbering enigma and, in addition, make the short detour to view the rather splendid round barrow (just the one, mind) located before the Crowdy Reservoir Dam. There is, incidentally, another monument a little further on past the water works, to the left.
Historic England has this to say:
“The monument includes three bowl barrows, situated on the upper southern slopes of a ridge, overlooking a tributary to the River Camel. The three barrows, two of which are contiguous and the third immediately adjacent, are aligned west to east and spaced so closely they are almost a ‘triple’ barrow. The barrows survive as three circular mounds enclosed by an outer, oval partially-buried ditch. The mounds from west to east measure 24m in diameter and 1.3m high; 18m in diameter and 1.2m high; and 19m in diameter and 1.3m high. All three mounds have pits and trenches associated with early excavations or robbing. The surrounding outer quarry ditch is up to 3.2m wide and 0.6m.
The mound and ditch to the south east are cut slightly by a hedge and road.
Sources: HER:- PastScape Monument No:-434423”