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Monument Number 188228
Hob Uid: 188228
Location : Somerset Somerset West and Taunton Huish Champflower
Grid Ref : ST0362028020
Summary : Bowl barrows (2)
More information : [ST 0362 2802; ST 0362 2797] TUMULI [GT]. (1) Huish Champflower No. 2 [SS 03622802] a gutted bowl barrow 20 paces diameter and 5 1/2 ft. high trenched by F. Hancock in 1896. Within inner retaining circle of stones 10 ft. diameter and 2 ft. high were 'British' potsherds, central (?) pit but no human remains. There was an outer retaining circle 3ft inside present margin of barrow. Huish Champflower No. 3, [SS 0362 2797] a gutted bowl barrow used as rubbish dump. It is 25 paces diameter and 6 ft. high. Trenched by F. Hancock in 1896. Primary and two secondary cremations. Urn with one secondary - it is said that the other had a "sword about 3 ft. long, found 40 years previously" and now lost, but this is very doubtful. Retaining wall was just within margin of barrow. (2) Two bowl barrows, the southern is 1.9m high and the northern 1.6m high. The excavation trenches dug by Hancock have never been filled in. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 See G.Ps AO/65/179/7 & 8. (3)

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Source details : OS 6" 1962
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : West Somer. Barrows Mss., (L.V. Grinsell)
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Source Number : 2a
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Source details : P. Somer. Arch. Soc., 1896. 42, 22
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : F1 GHP 10-AUG-65
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Bowl Barrow
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Somerset)
External Cross Reference Number : 33651
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : SO 482
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Somerset)
External Cross Reference Number : 33650
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : ST 02 NW 4
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1896-01-01
End Date : 1896-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1965-08-10
End Date : 1965-08-10

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 188228