Bowl Barrow On Henley Knap

• HER Number (PRN): 00284
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow On Henley Knap
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1016822
  Title:	Bowl barrow
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
  • Boundary Marker? (Medieval to Post Medieval)
• Civil Parish:
  • All Stretton , Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4280 9686
• 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
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: A well-preserved burial mound of probable Bronze Age date, one of a number on the Long Mynd.
• Description: A round barrow on the parish boundary between All Stretton and Church Stretton. Dimensions not available <1>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Medium score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <3>
  
  National Trust Archaeology Survey: suggests the barrow also functions as a medieval/ post medieval boundary marker. Visited 05/09/1995. Management recommendations made <4>
  
  Scheduled in 1999. Scheduling description: ->
  
  -> The monument includes the earthwork and buried remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow and a section of an adjacent boundary bank, situated on level ground from which there are extensive views of the surrounding countryside in all directions. It lies approximately 350m north west of the barrows at Duckley Nap and Robin Hood's Butts, which are the subject of separate schedulings. The earthen mound of the barrow is about l5m in diameter and survives to a height of lm. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the barrow, surrounds the mound. This has been infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature, approximately 3m wide. ->
  
  -> A boundary bank crosses the barrow on its north eastern side (this feature also crosses the barrow at Duckley Nap). The bank is a long established feature, depicted on early editions of Ordnance Survey maps. A section of the boundary bank crossing the barrow is included in the scheduling in order to protect its archaeological relationship with the barrow. ->
  
  -> All fence posts are excluded from the scheduling, although the ground beneath them is included. <5>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 2000. Condition recorded as satisfactory. <6>
• 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 00284.
  (01)	VERBAL COMMUNICATION: Toms G S G. 1976. Comment, 26/07/1976.
  (02)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1977. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49NW31 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49NW31 .
  (02a)	Vertical aerial photograph: Royal Air Force. 1946. Vertical View, 1946.
  (03)	TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File.
  (04)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Inventory 52433.
  (05)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1999. Scheduling Papers (New Scheduling, 07/07/1999). 32284.
  (06)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.

• Tags:
  • Bowl Barrow
  • Boundary Marker
• Related Places:
  • All Stretton, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 27/07/1976
• Date Last Edited: 06/11/2015 13:56:20