Summary : Site of a Bronze Age round barrow, excavated in 1919 by Harold St George Gray. He found a cremation in a collared urn within the centre of the mound. Further pottery, plus worked flints including scrapers and cores were also recovered, as was a quantity of burnt flint. The finds are (probably) in Taunton Museum. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 recorded the barrow as a heather-covered mound 7.5 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres high, extensively mutilated by trenching. No trace of a ditch was seen, although one had previously been suggested to be present. |
More information : (SZ 17939056) Tumuli (NR) (1) A cremation in an urn (type unknown) was found in this barrow when excavated by H St G Gray, 1919. Excavation unpublished. One of two urns given to the late Gordon Selfridge, the remaining material probably went to Taunton Museum. (2) Barrow with a slight ditch. (3) A heather-covered mound, 7.5m in diameter and 0.7m high, and extensively mutilated by trenching. No trace of a ditch. (4) No change. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (5)
Barrow 12 (Gray's mound H) a barrow 10.3m in diameter, 0.5m high. Gray's excavations located an in-urned cremation, situated within the centre of the mound. The urn was of Longworth's Secondary Series, Southeastern Style, form Bi/ii. Worked flint, including scrapers and cores, and burnt flint recovered. (6) |