DEVON ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS No. 75 2017Excavation of an early Bronze Age Round Barrow atEmmets Post, Shaugh Prior, Dartmoor

Oxford Archaeology carried out an excavation of an early Bronze Age barrow at Emmets Post, Dartmoor. The barrow comprised a primary turf mound and a central cairn beneath a secondary turf mound with a stone kerb. No human remains were found. A radiocarbon dating programme yielded a wide range of dates. Some derived from older material incidentally incorporated within the turves during construction, but a date of 1750–1560 cal BC for the central area of the barrow may represent the true date of construction. The landscape had been largely destroyed by modern quarrying, but present-day Lidar data and contour data from historic maps were used to reconstruct the pre-quarry topography.