Bowl Barrow On Robins Tump, 600m South West Of Hill House

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• HER Number (PRN): 00227
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow On Robins Tump, 600m South West Of Hill House
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1010725
  Title:	Bowl barrow on Robin's Tump
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
• Civil Parish:
  • Cardington , Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4806 9529
• Related Interventions:
  • 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, ESA206
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a number of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age date in the Church Stretton area.
• Description: Tumulus <1a>
  A bracken-covered barrow c8.5m in diameter and 0.9m high. There is a ditch around the SW side, 2m wide and less than 0.2m deep. The mound has been disturbed on the W side, otherwise it is in good condition. OS FI 1972 <1>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Medium score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <5>
  
  Scheduled in 1994. Scheduling description: ->
  
  -> The monument includes a small bowl barrow situated on the top of a west to east spur below the summit of Caer Caradoc Hill. The barrow mound is well defined, circular in plan with a diameter of 9m and stands up to 0.8m high. The top of the mound has been disturbed creating an irregular shaped hollow 0.2m deep. The fabric of the mound, where it is exposed in this disturbance, shows it to be of earth and stone construction. The surrounding ditch, from which the material for the mound would have been quarried, remains visible around the southern half of the barrow where it is 2.5m wide and 0.lm deep. Though no longer visible around the northern half of the barrow it will survive here as a buried feature of similar proportions <6>
  
  Photographed during aerial survey in 2009. <7>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 1998. Condition recorded as satisfactory in an improved grass field. <8>
• 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 00227.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1977. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49NE12 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49NE12 .
  (01a)	Map annotation: Crawford O G S. 1954. Map annotation. 1:2500.
  (02)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1987-Jan-03. CPAT 87/MB/0098. Black and White. Medium.
  (03)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1987-Jan-03. CPAT 87/MB/0098. Black and White. Medium.
  (04)	Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1987-Jan-03. CPAT 87/C/0042. Colour. 35mm.
  (05)	TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File.
  (06)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1994. Scheduling Papers (New Scheduling, 14/01/1994). 19171.
  (07)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2009-Mar-20. SA0906_326 (1 photo) Flight: 09_SA_06. Colour. Digital.
  (08)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.

• Tags:
  • Bowl Barrow
• Related Places:
  • Cardington, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 19/01/1995
• Date Last Edited: 12/07/2017 09:18:15