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Monument Number 197576
Hob Uid: 197576
Location : Somerset Mendip Priddy
Grid Ref : ST5418053580
Summary : A group of possible Bronze Age round barrows associated with one of the so-called Priddy Circles (ST 55 SW 4 and child records). A total of five possible barrows - four within Priddy Circle 4 (ST 55 SW 127) and one just outside its projected western side - are included within the scheduled monument description for the enclosure, although Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1966 was only able to identify 3 mounds in total (measuring between 0.3 and 0.7 metres high). 3 mounds are said to have been dug into in 1832, with ashes reportedly being found. Like the Priddy Circles themselves, dating evidence is lacking. Interpretation as round barrows and dating to the Bronze Age is based on surviving morphology and analogy with other such monuments.
More information : [ST 54185359] Details of tumulus only. (1) Four mounds, probably tumuli (T.313A, T.313-5) are situated within the perimeter of the northernmost of the four Priddy Circles. [See AO/LP/63/206] (ST 55 SW 4). (2) Only three ploughed down barrows are visible on the ground. At ST 54185358, a bowl barrow 0.7 metres high (T.315, Grinsell's East Harptree 2a). At ST 5422 5359 a bowl barrow 0.6m high. (T.313, East Harptree 2b); and at ST 54235357 a bowl barrow 0.3m high. (T.134, East Harptree 2c). There is no trace of Tratman's T.313A, (East Harptree 2d) which Tratman positions at ST 54145351 Surveyed at 1:2500. (3) Tumulus deleted from field document. (4) Additional reference-as 3a. (5)

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Source details : Ordnance Survey 6" (prov) 1961
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Source details : Taylor, C and EK Tratman. Priddy Circles. Preliminary Report.
Page(s) : Jul-17
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Vol(s) : 8, 1956-7

Source Number : 3
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Source details : F1 AN King 13/06/1966
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Source Number : 3a
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Source details : Mendip Barrows (Mss) (LV Grinsell)
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Source Number : 4
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Source details : Ordnance Survey Small Scales Reviser (M.Beck March 1970)
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Source Number : 5
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Vol(s) : 115, 1971

Source Number : 6
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Source details : English Heritage Schedule Entry 31/01/1997
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : Tratman, EK. The Priddy Circles, Mendip, Somerset. Henge Monuments.
Page(s) : 97-125
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Vol(s) : 11, 1965-6

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Barrow Cemetery, Bowl Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Mound
Evidence : Earthwork

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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : SO 118
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 29041
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 55 SW 6
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1966-06-13
End Date : 1966-06-13

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 197576