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Hameldown Beacon barrow

England
List entry 1003284
Nation
England
The designation
Reference
List entry 1003284
Authority
Historic England (NHLE)
Status
Scheduled Monument
Scheduled area
0.08 hectares
Grid reference
SX 70826 78916
Boundary

Scheduled area

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Overview

History & significance

Hameldown Beacon is a Bronze Age round barrow located on Hameldown Moor in Devon, England. The monument comprises a circular earthwork mound typical of burial practices during the Bronze Age period, when such barrows served as communal or elite burial monuments across the English landscape. The barrow's position on high moorland is characteristic of Bronze Age funerary sites in the Southwest, which often occupy prominent topographical locations. As a scheduled ancient monument, Hameldown Beacon remains an important archaeological record of prehistoric burial customs and settlement patterns in the region.

Hameldown Beacon barrow is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003284. View the official record →

About this monument

Questions & answers

What is Hameldown Beacon barrow?

Hameldown Beacon is a Bronze Age round barrow located on Hameldown Moor in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003284.

Who is responsible for protecting Hameldown Beacon barrow?

Hameldown Beacon barrow is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1003284.

What other scheduled monuments are near Hameldown Beacon barrow?

Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south west of Venford Reservoir dam (8.7 km), Three stone hut circles 780m SSW of Venford Reservoir dam (8.8 km), Prehistoric fields, settlements and cairn south east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system (8.8 km).

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Overview
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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
Battlefields
The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.
Roman Britain
The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.
Domesday
The settlement's entry in the 1086 Domesday Book: who held it, what it was worth, and the people who worked the land.
Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
LiDAR
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Local Names
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Legal
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Nearby

Other scheduled monuments within 10 km

Enclosed prehistoric settlement and round cairn 880m south west of Venford Reservoir dam
8.7 km
Three stone hut circles 780m SSW of Venford Reservoir dam
8.8 km
Prehistoric fields, settlements and cairn south east of Venford Reservoir forming part of the Dartmeet coaxial field system
8.8 km
Stone hut circle and length of boundary walling 860m south west of Venford Reservoir dam
8.9 km
Enclosed prehistoric settlement and three round cairns 870m south east of Horn's Cross
9 km
Four cairns on Holne Lee 1140m north west of Greatcombe
9.2 km
Round cairn 580m south of Horn's Cross forming part of a cairn cemetery on Holne Ridge
9.3 km
Cairn cemetery 900m north east of Hapstead Ford and 2km WSW of Fore Stoke
9.7 km
The ground beneath

The bedrock under Hameldown Beacon barrow

Hameldown Beacon barrow stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

The wider landscape

Around Hameldown Beacon barrow

ExeterRoman town · ~15.6 miles
Domesday entry for Natsworthy, Devon →
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