Bowl Barrow On The Long Mynd, 500m Ese Of Boiling Well

• HER Number (PRN): 01252
• Site Name : Bowl Barrow On The Long Mynd, 500m Ese Of Boiling Well
• Protected Status:

  Grade:
  Ref No.:	1007344
  Title:	Bowl barrow
  Type:	Scheduled Monument

• Monument Type:
  • Bowl Barrow (Bronze Age)
• Civil Parish:
  • Church Stretton , South Shropshire, Shropshire
• Grid Reference: SO 4262 9449
• 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, ESA1829
  • 1972 field observation by the Ordnance Survey, ESA1828
• Brief Description: Scheduled Monument: One of a group of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age date on the Long Mynd.
• Description: Remains of a heather covered round barrow, 7.5m in diameter, 0.4m high, the SW side cut away by a footpath, and dug into on the NE side. No visible remains of a ditch. OS FI 1972 <1>
  
  The remains of a tumulus, consisting of a mound some 20ft across with a depressed centre, lie at the highest point of the road to Ratlinghope. The greater portion of it has apparently been cut away in making the road <2a>
  
  Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, Low score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <3>
  
  The monument includes the remains of a small bowl barrow situated on the high point of a rounded prominence on The Long Mynd. The barrow is visible as an oval mound 8.5m north-west to south-east by 7m transversely and stands up to 0.9m high. The south-western side has been cut by the line of the metalled road crossing the hill top at this point and the central area of the mound is hollowed to a depth of 0.4m as a result of exploration at sometime in the past. Although no longer visible as a surface feature, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the monument, surrounds the mound. This has been destroyed around the south-west side by the construction of the roadway but will survive around the remainder of the barrow as a buried feature some 1.5m wide <4>
  
  The receipt of a field monument warden's report dating to 1985 [<2>] had caused the SMR to record this site as a scheduled monument. However, the scheduling notice issued by English Heritage in October 1993 [<4>] did not refer to the site having been scheduled previously. PAW comment. 4/11/93 <5>
  
  National Trust Archaeology Survey. Visited 05/09/1995. Management recommendations made; otherwise, adds little to [<4>] <6>
  
  Visited during a condition survey by the English Heritage Field Monument Warden, in 1996. Condition recorded as satisfactory; heather covered. <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 01252.
  (01)	Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1972. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO49SW4. Ordnance Survey record cards. SO49SW4.
  (02)	Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1986. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 25913.
  (02a)	Monograph: Cobbold E S. 1904. Church Stretton. Vol 3. p39.
  (03)	TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File.
  (04)	Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1993. Scheduling Papers (New Scheduling, 12/10/1993). 19102.
  (05)	SMR comment: Ward Penny A. Comments by SMR compiler in SMR database. 04/11/1993.
  (06)	Field survey report: Woodside R & Milln Jeremy. 1995. The National Trust Archaeological Survey: The Long Mynd, Shropshire. National Trust Archaeological Survey. Inventory 52414.
  (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: 04/11/1993
• Date Last Edited: 06/11/2015 14:52:17