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Earthworks C 600m W Of The Hills Farm

  • HER Number (PRN): 00610
  • Site Name : Earthworks C 600m W Of The Hills Farm
  • Monument Type:
    • Coal Workings? (Post Medieval)
    • Non Antiquity?
    • Round Barrow? (Bronze Age)
  • Civil Parish:
    • Chetton , Bridgnorth, Shropshire
  • Grid Reference: SO 6878 9031
  • Related Interventions:
    • 1978 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA598
  • Brief Description: Earthworks representing a possible round barrow of probable Bronze Age date. It has also been suggested that the earthworks are the result of coal working.
  • Description: Possible barrow? <1a>
    Marked as Old Shafts (coal) on OS 1891 map <1b>
    A low ground swelling, which merges into a gentle W facing slope on its uphill side, is all that remains of this feature, which was under the plough at the time of investigation..No coal fragments were seen. OS FI 1978 <1>
  • 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 00610.
    (01) Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1978. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO69SE11 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO69SE11 .
    (01a) Map annotation: Chitty Lily F. Map annotation by OS Correspondent.
    (01b) Map: Ordnance Survey. 1891. OS County Series 58SE, 1891. OS County Series. 58SE. 1:10560.
  • Tags:
    • Coal Workings
    • Round Barrow
    • Non Antiquity
  • Related Places:
    • Chetton, Bridgnorth, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
  • For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
  • Date Created: 15/03/1983
  • Date Last Edited: 01/09/2017 15:12:26


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