Enclosure And Building Platform On Novers Hill, 250m East Of Cwmdale Farm

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• HER Number (PRN): 00244
• Site Name : Enclosure And Building Platform On Novers Hill, 250m East Of Cwmdale Farm
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1008385
  Title:	Enclosure and building platform
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Enclosure (Medieval to Post Medieval)
  • Building Platform (Medieval to Post Medieval)
• Civil Parish:
  • Church Stretton , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4542 9506
• Related Interventions:
  • 1995 Survey of archaeological sites on National Trust land on the Long Mynd, ESA4936
  • 1992-2000 Summary Condition Survey of SAMs in the Shropshire Hills Environmentally Sensitive Area by English Heritage, esa4785
  • 1972 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA226
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a number of earthwork enclosures (believed to have been medieval and later stock pens and herdsmen's dwellings) which form part of the important upland relic landscape of the Long Mynd.
• Description: The enclosure is near the highest point of Nover Hill but sheltered by higher ground to the SW. Sub triangular in shape with one curved side, the turf covered bank is no more than 0.5m high and the external ditch from which it was quarried is about the same depth. The mound within the enclosure is of irregular outline, approx 7m by 4m and 0.6m high and is possibly the site of a building. Probably Medieval or later. OS FI 1972 <1>
  It is probably not of any great antiquity, and may have been connected with a cottage which formerly existed in the vicinity <1a>
  
  Scheduled in 1994. Scheduling description: ->
  
  -> The monument includes the remains of a small enclosure and building platform situated below the summit of Nover's hill. It lies on a gentle north east facing slope, set back from the hill edge and sheltered by the summit of the hill to the south west. The enclosure is well defined, roughly triangular in plan, with maximum dimensions of 58m north west to south east by 54m north east to south west. The west facing side of the enclosure is formed by a curving bank and ditch, strongest around the south western, uphill, quarter, where the bank is up to 4m wide and 0.6m high. The outer ditch, which would have served as a source of material for the bank is approximately 1.5m wide and up to 0.5m in depth. It is possible that the bank is strongest in the south west quarter to protect the entrance and the interior of the site from any surface water running off the hill. The remaining north and east sides of the enclosure are straight, forming a rough right angle at the north east corner of the enclosure. They are formed by a slighter bank 2.4m wide and 0.4m high with an outer ditch 1m wide and 0.2m deep. At the junction of the east and west sides, the ditch and bank are interrupted, the latter curving to form a simple inturned entrance 1m wide. Some 9m west from this original entrance the bank is slightly lowered and the ditch is interrupted by a causeway 5m wide; this appears to be a later adaptation. Immediately inside the original entrance is a small sub-rectangular platform measuring 8m north west to south east by 4m transversely; this is believed to be the remains of an early, perhaps contemporary building. The northern side of this feature is formed by a crescent shaped mound 4m x 3m and 0.6m high, the remaining sides by a low bank up to 0.3m high. The remainder of the interior is roughly level, although the buried remains of structures will survive below the ground surface. <5>
  
  National Trust Archaeology Survey suggests most likely to be medieval or post medieval in date, and may have been a stock enclosure built to pen the flocks before they were brought down into the valley. Visited 06/09/1995. Management recommendations made, but generally adds little to [<5>].<6>
  
  Photographed during aerial photographic survey in 2008-2009. <7>-<10>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 1998. Condition recorded as satisfactory. <11>
• Record Type: Monument
• Sources:

  (00)	Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 00244.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1972. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49NE17 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49NE17 .
  (01a)	Monograph: Cobbold E S. 1904. Church Stretton. Vol 3. p55-56.
  (01b)	Volume: Victoria County History. 1908. Victoria County History 1. Victoria County History of Shropshire. Vol 1. p407.
  (02)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1984-Dec-11. CPAT 84/38/0011.
  (03)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1987-Jan-03. CPAT 87/MB/0088 to 0089 (2 photos). Black and White. Medium.
  (04)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1988-Mar-04. CPAT 88/04/0014.
  (05)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1993. Scheduling Papers (New Scheduling, 19/05/1994). 19173.
  (06)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. p22;Inventory 52423.
  (07)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2008-Jan-30. SA0802_296 and SA0802_298 (2 photos) Flight: 08_SA_02. Colour. Digital.
  (08)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2009-Mar-5. SA0903_69 (1 photo) Flight: 09_SA_03. Colour. Digital.
  (09)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2009-Mar-20. SA0906_333 to SA0906_338 (6 photos) Flight: 09_SA_06. Colour. Digital.
  (10)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2010-Jan-30. SA1002_086 to SA1002_087 (2 photos) Flight: 10_SA_02. Colour. Digital.
  (11)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.

• Tags:
  • Building Platform
  • Enclosure
• Related Places:
  • Church Stretton, South Shropshire, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 27/06/1994
• Date Last Edited: 12/07/2017 10:18:44