| Summary : A linear bowl barrow cemetery known as Twelve Barrows, includes the above ground and buried remains of 12 Bronze Age bowl barrows situated 33 metres east of Higher Hendra, Perranzabuloe. The barrows occupy a position on the ridge of a north west facing spur and all 12 are set in a line aligned from north west to south east along the ridge over a distance of about 250 metres. The barrows survive as a combination of earthworks and buried remains recorded over the years by way of ground survey and aerial photography. Of the 12 barrow mounds, six are visible above ground; the most extant lies near the south eastern end of the group. This barrow retains a height of 2.2 metres and has a diameter of 16 metres. Another four barrows occupying positions in the centre of the linear group are visible as low mounds varying between 0.15 metres and 0.25 metres in height and having diameters of between 12 metres and 13 metres. They flank, with a pair either side, a further single barrow, known from an aerial photograph by its circular quarry ditch. The most north westerly barrow of the linear group survives as a low mound 0.15 metres high, part of which has been removed by a track on its northern side. Three barrows are recorded as low mounds by a combination of Ordnance Survey mapping and more recent survey; these are on the same alignment as the extant barrows of the cemetery group and are on the north west end of the line. A further two barrows at the extreme south east end of the line are recorded on Ordnance Survey maps and in recent surveys as very low mounds. These complete the 12 barrows as currently known; others in the same group are thought to exist but await confirmation. Scheduled. |
More information : (SW 79405542) Twelve Barrows (NR) (sites of) (NAT) (1)
21 barrows between SW 79255556 & SW 79505532. Extant remains of
eight and possible remains of another eight.
Two additional barrows listed. Approx SW 794554. (2)
It there were twenty one barrows in the vicinity this number
cannot be traced. The traditional name is corroborated by the
publication of twelve siting symbols on the OS 25" 1906, when
identification was probably easier than today. All are under
pasture or in a thorn coppice adjacent to the field hedge.
SW 79355547; SW 79465536; SW 79475535:- No remains are visible
at these sitings.
SW 79325550; SW 79345548; SW 79405542:- At each of these sites a
low amorphous mound can be detected, evidently representing a
ploughed out round barrow.
SW 79305552:- Diameter 12.0m, height 0.3m. The north side is
partly overlaid by a hedge.
SW 79365545:- Diameter 10.0m, height 0.2m.
SW 79385543:- Diameter 14.0m, height 0.3m.
SW 79415540:- Diameter 12.0m, height 0.3m., with unsurveyable
traces of a ditch.
SW 79425539:- Diameter 10.0m, height 0.3m, with unsurveyable
traces of a ditch.
SW 79445537:- Diameter approximately 14.0m, height 2.1m. The
largest barrow in the group, although the SE quadrant has been
almost completely dug away. There are unsurveyable traces of a
ditch.
All the above are round barrows and probably bowls though only
the last mentioned is clearly a bowl barrow.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (3)
(SW 79445537)
The one remaining barrow of a large group of round barrows which
once existed here.
All the remaining barrows have been ploughed but the position
of about five others can be seen to the SW of this barrow. (4)
Visited by MPPA, February 1997. "The two SMR references given above are believed by the MPPA to be duplications of two barrows included within the scheduling. 19719.08 is believed to be a duplicate .07. 19719.09 perhaps duplicates 19719.10. There is nothing visible at the precise NGR point given for the pair.....A duplication of records from differing sources seems to be the most likely cause for the unlikely proliferation of entries beyond the number of barrows known." No recommended changes. (5) |