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