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HER Number (PRN):01647
Name:"Red Castle" Hoard c 220m NW of Harcourt Mill
Type of Record:Find Spot
Protected Status:None recorded

Monument Type(s):

  • FINDSPOT (Bronze Age - 2600 BC to 700 BC)

Summary

A Hoard of 4 socketed axes (FSA819), 2 or 3 Palstaves (FSA1204) and an object (FSA1480) variously interpreted as a spearhead or an ingot.

Parish:Weston-under-Redcastle, North Shropshire, Shropshire
Map Sheet:SJ52NE
Grid Reference:SJ 57 29

Related records

01648Related to: Finds in the 19th century of Roman coins and other items at Red Castle (Find Spot)
01140Related to: Red Castle, Hawkstone Park (Monument)

Associated Finds

  • FSA1028 - HOARD (Bronze Age - 2600 BC to 700 BC)
  • FSA1480 - UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Bronze Age - 2600 BC? to 700 BC?)
  • FSA1204 - PALSTAVE (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
  • FSA819 - SOCKETED AXEHEAD (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)

Associated Events

  • ESA2188 - 1962 field observation by the Ordnance Survey

Description

LBA hoard, accounts of components vary. Four socketed celts, three palstaves and one spearhead found near..Red Castle. <1a>

'…in the ruins of Red Castle… a hoard of the late Bronze Age, comprising 2 looped palstaves, 4 socketed axes, and a tongue-shaped object that may be an ingot of metal'.. Are in the possession of Sir Alexander Stanier, The Citadel, Weston <1b>

Three 3-ribbed socketed axes, two of which are possibly from the same mould-drawings at BM.
Palstave-Rowlands Class I Gp I (No 858),
Palstave Rowlands Class NB2 Gp 2 (No 856),
Palstave-Rowlands Class2 Gp 2-looped (No 857) and
Spearhead-Rowlands Gp2-side looped (No 1356)
Objects were in the possession of A Sinclair of Hawkestone cf PRNs 00775 and 00844 <3>

Sir Alexander and Lady Stanier have left the area and the precise sites of the finds were not established (Field Investigators Comments F1 JHW 16-JAN-62) <6>

Sources

[00]XYSSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 01647. [Mapped feature: #38885 ]
[01a]SSA178 - Volume: Victoria County History. 1908. Victoria County History 1. Victoria County History of Shropshire. Vol 1. p200, p202.
[01b]SSA390 - Article in serial: Chitty Lily F. 1951/ 1953. Prehistoric and Other Early Finds in the Borough of Shrewsbury. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 54. p105-144. p249.
[01]SSA5972 - Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1962. Ordnance Survey Record Card SJ52NE3. Ordnance Survey record cards. SJ52NE3.
[02]SSA3249 - Volume: Anon. 1927/ 1928. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. Transactions Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Ser 4, Vol XI (=Vol 44). piv-v.
[03]SSA568 - Volume: Rowlands M. 1976. The Production and Distribution of Metalwork in the Middle Bronze Age in S Britain. BAR British Series. Vol 31. p373, No 1356; p254n; p329, Nos 856-858.
[04]SSA5971 - Article in serial: Chitty Lily F. 1923. Article in the Antiquaries Journal. Antiq J. Vol 9. p255.
[05]SSA569 - Index: Prehistoric Research Group. List compiled by the Shropshire Prehistoric Research Group.
[06]SSA22230 - Online database: National Monuments Record (NMR). Pastscape (National Record for the Historic Environment - NRHE). https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=70614.
Date Last Edited:Jul 27 2020 11:16AM

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