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MONUMENT NO. 427912

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A Bronze Age bowl barrow 510 metres north east of Two Burrows Farm alongside the road from Two Burrows to Mount Hawke. The barrow is 3.6 metres high with a full rounded top surmounting a vertical rim 1.8 metres high which is found around the entire circumference. It is 24 metres in diameter. There is no visible sign of the barrow having possessed a surrounding ditch. Scheduled.

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(SW 73544695) Tumulus (NR) (1)

At 'Two Barrows' ('Two Burrows' named at SW 738467 on OS 1:10 000
1975) Thomas records three barrows, the most westerly being 90 ft
in diameter (see SW 74 NW 18 for the other barrows). (2-3)

A bowl barrow, 3.2m high with a depression 1.0m deep in the centre.

Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

1:10 000 1975

( 2) Cornwall Archaeological Society Cornish archaeology

1, 1962 Page(s)113

( 3) West Briton

West Briton 24/10/1851

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

01/04/1970

(5) Scheduled Monument Notification

06/08/1997

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