Devon Archaeol Soc Proc 55

Partial excavation of a small barrow on Bratton Down produced a central deposit of cremated bone mixed with incised Trevisker sherds within a cist of stone and wood. At Shallowmead, Span Head, a simple ring cairn had no central focus. Both monuments provided radiocarbon dates of the later second millennium BC. At Shallowmead clearance cairns and stone banks may belong to an episode of prehistoric land use. The sites are placed in their context among other Middle Bronze Age ritual monuments in south-west Britain. Includes two separately authored reports on:

which reports that the sample contained hazel, oak and a member of the Rosaceae subfamily Pomoidae (members include hawthorn, apple, pear, rowan, whitebeam and wild service)

which reports 6,243 medieval sherds from at least 196 vessels

which produced a calibrated date range of between cal BC 6440--6071 and cal AD 1430--1640 for the pollen sequence in peat samples

which in turn features a specialist report on