Bowl Barrow On The Long Mynd, 180m W Of The Site Of Pole Cottage

• HER Number (PRN): 01249
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow On The Long Mynd, 180m W Of The Site Of Pole Cottage
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1007343
  Title:	Bowl barrow
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
• Civil Parish:
  • Wentnor , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4112 9389
• 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, ESA1817
  • 1972 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA1816
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a group of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age date on the Long Mynd.
• Description: A heather covered barrow, 20m in diameter and 0.9m high, with a large central excavation crater. OS FI 1972 <1>
  
  A round barrow 66ft in diameter by 4ft high lies 200 yds west of the enclosure belonging to Pole Cottage. A depression in the centre is some 12ft across and 2.5ft deep <2a>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Medium score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <4>
  
  The monument includes the remains of a substantial round barrow situated on a flat open hilltop. The barrow is visible as a flat topped mound of earth and stone, 24m in diameter and up to 1.5m high. The summit of the mound has been disturbed by exploration at some time in the past, creating a central crater 5m in diameter and 0.6m 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 06/05/1995. Management recommendations made; otherwise adds little to [<5>] <6>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 1996. Condition recorded as satisfactory; densely covered with mostly heather. <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 01249.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1972. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49SW2. Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49SW2.
  (02)	Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1986. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 25914.
  (02a)	Monograph: Cobbold E S. 1904. Church Stretton. Vol 3. p40.
  (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. 1993. Scheduling Papers (Revised Scheduling, 12/10/1993). 19101.
  (06)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Inventory 52413.
  (07)	Field survey report: Leigh Judith. 2001. Scheduled Ancient Monuments in the Shropshire Hills ESA: Brief Condition Survey.

• Tags:
  • Bowl Barrow
• Related Places:
  • Wentnor, South Shropshire, Shropshire (Civil Parish)
• For more information contact: Shropshire Council HER
• Date Created: 05/09/1977
• Date Last Edited: 06/11/2015 16:29:04