Scheduled Monument: Green Barrow on Hawkridge Common
(1021263)
Authority
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Other Ref
35972
Date assigned
24 February 2004
Date last amended
Date revoked
Details
The monument includes Green Barrow, a bowl barrow of prehistoric date located west of Knighton Combe on Hawkridge Common. The barrow lies in isolation on a high, broad plateau of open moorland which slopes gradually south towards Halscombe Allotment, overlooking Withypool Hill to the east. It is formed by a well-defined level-topped mound 13.3m in diameter and 1.4m high. A pit, 2.7m by 2.2m and 0.5m deep has been dug into its surface, probably in antiquity. In common with other bowl barrows recorded in the region, the mound would have been surrounded by a ditch from which material was quarried for the mound's construction. This is no longer visible at ground level but will survive as a buried feature approximately 1.5m wide.
Selected Sources
Book Reference - Title: National Monument Record - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: SS 83 SW 3
Article Reference - Author: Grinsell, L V - Title: Somerset Barrows - Date: 1969 - Journal Title: Proceedings Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Ssociety - Volume: 113 - Page References: 42 - Type: DESC TEXT - Description: Withypool No 4