Bowl Barrow N On Grindle Nills Hill, 400m Se Of Barristers Plain Cross Dyke

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• HER Number (PRN): 01247
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow N On Grindle Nills Hill, 400m Se Of Barristers Plain Cross Dyke
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1007351
  Title:	Title not entered
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
• Civil Parish:
  • Church Stretton , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4290 9245
• Related Monuments:
  • (Northernmost of) Group of round barrows Grindle Nills, 01246
• 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, ESA1813
  • 1972 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA1812
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a group of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age date on the Long Mynd.
• Description: Round barrow, 14m in average diameter and 0.8m high . No trace of a ditch. OS FI 1972 <1>
  
  Oval, 50ft by 40ft by 4ft high, (its shape) may be due to the natural process of degradation down the steep slopes of the hill to the east <2a>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, High score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <4>
  
  The monument includes a bowl barrow situated on the lip of a steep east facing scarp slope. The barrow is visible as a well defined, slightly oval mound of earth and stone construction, with dimensions of 11.7m north east to south west by 10m transversely and standing up to 0.8m high. The summit of the mound is flattened and slightly hollowed as a result of exploration at some time in the past forming a shallow central crater 3m in diameter and 0.2m deep. The centre of this crater shows the inner fabric of the mound to comprise angular limestone blocks of a fairly uniform size between 10cm and 20cm. Although not visible at surface level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled through the passage of time 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>
  
  Photographed during aerial survey in 2009. <7>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 2000. Condition recorded as fair - covered by thick old heather. <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 01247.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1972. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49SW10 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49SW10 .
  (02)	Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1986. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 25916.
  (02a)	Monograph: Cobbold E S. 1904. Church Stretton. Vol 3. p41.
  (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)	TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File.
  (05)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1994. Scheduling Papers (Affirmation, 02/12/1993). 19109.
  (06)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Inventory 52418.
  (07)	Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2009-Mar-5. SA0903_51 (1 photo) Flight: 09_SA_03. 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:
  • Church Stretton, South Shropshire, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 19/01/1994
• Date Last Edited: 06/11/2015 14:58:13