More information : [ST 72735173] LONG BARROW [G.T.]. (1)
Skinner was informed that three upright stones placed in the form of
a triangle, and about as high as the Murtry stones (c.10 ft. ST75
SE 5) were removed from the barrow and broken up for road metalling
sometime before this visit in 1819.
The barrow appears to be orientated almost due north-south. The
southern end has been overlaid by the cause-way of a modern road and
the northern part survives as a quite well defined mound 0.8m. high.
Recent ploughing shows the mound to be composed of earth with a few
small stones.
Resurveyed at 1:2500. (2)
A fragmennt of human tibia has been recovered from the surface of
this barrow. (3)
ST 7272 5175: Big Tree, Buckland down, listed as a long barrow.
Visited by LV Grinsell 29-Aug-1964. W part arable, E part grass. Site
is named from an elm which stood in it until c.1960. The mound now
resembles a round barrow but the S end may have been removed when the
A362 was made (4)
'Big tree' previously known as 'Madbarrow' or 'Modbury', mentioned
by John Strachey, 1730. (5)(6)
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