Bowl Barrow On Minton Hill, 170m Ene Of Yapsel Well

• HER Number (PRN): 01239
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow On Minton Hill, 170m Ene Of Yapsel Well
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1007346
  Title:	Bowl barrow
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
• Civil Parish:
  • Church Stretton , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4145 9193
• 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
  • 1985 field observation by English Heritage, ESA1793
  • 1972 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA1792
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a group of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age dates on the Long Mynd.
• Description: A stony round barrow, 11.5m in diameter and 0.5m high, with no visible remains of a ditch. The mound has been disturbed at the centre and on the NE side. OS FI 1972 <1>
  
  A round barrow nearly on the summit of the hill at Yapsel Bank is 40ft in diameter and of little height. It is constructed of stones, and appears to have been opened on one side <2a>
  
  The monument includes a substantial round barrow situated on the summit of Minton Hill. The barrow is visible as a circular, well defined stony mound, 16m in diameter and 1m high. The flattened summit of the mound has been disturbed by exploration at some time in the past creating a central hollow 2m in diameter and 0.3m deep. Although no longer discernible as a surface feature, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature some 2m wide <5>
  
  National Trust Archaeology Survey. Visited 06/09/1995. Management recommendations made; otherwise, adds little to [<5>] <6>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 2000. Condition recorded as fair; masked by very thick heather growth. <7>
• 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 01239.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1972. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49SW12 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49SW12 .
  (02)	Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1986. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 25919.
  (02a)	Monograph: Cobbold E S. 1904. Church Stretton. Vol 3. p42-43.
  (02b)	Volume: Victoria County History. 1908. Victoria County History 1. Victoria County History of Shropshire. Vol 1. p411.
  (03)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1990. Map of Scheduled area, 1990.
  (04)	Photograph: Burrow Ian. 1976-Nov/Dec. Barrow On Long Mynd. Black and white. 35mm.
  (05)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1993. Scheduling Papers (Affirmation, 22/09/1993). 19104.
  (06)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Inventory 52416.
  (07)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.

• Tags:
  • Bowl Barrow
• Related Places:
  • Church Stretton, South Shropshire, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 20/10/1993
• Date Last Edited: 06/11/2015 14:55:32