| HER Number (PRN): | 60119 |
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| Name: | Waterlogged deposit recorded during building of the The Shirehall, The Square, Shrewsbury |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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Protected Status: | None recorded |
Monument Type(s):
Summary
Observations of considerable waterlogged deposit encountered during building of The Shirehall, Shrewsbury in 1783-1785.
| Parish: | Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SJ41SE |
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| Grid Reference: | SJ 49160 12472 |
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Related records
| 60204 | Related to: Finds during excavations in November 1932 in the yard of Lloyds Mansion (Monument) |
| 62610 | Related to: Gumbestolesmore, Gombestalmere, The Shirehall Bog (Monument) |
| 60203 | Related to: Peat deposits, Statue of Lord Clive, The Square, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 60200 | Related to: Possible postholes exposed during alterations to the Unitarian Chapel, High Street, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 60202 | Related to: Really an event (ESA3705?): Surfaces, The Square, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 60121 | Related to: Really an event (not sorted yet) The Shirehall (1881 extension) (Monument) |
| 62440 | Related to: Street block on SW side of High Street, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
| 62463 | Related to: The Square, The Corn Market, Corn Chepying (Monument) |
| 60120 | Related to: Waterlogged deposit, The Shirehall rebuilding, The Square, Shrewsbury (Monument) |
Associated Finds
- FSA480 - PLANT MACRO REMAINS (Lower Palaeolithic to Late Iron Age - 500000 BC to 42 AD)
Associated Events
- ESA3615 - 1825 observation
- ESA3616 - 1808 observation
Description
The Shirehall, 1783-85.
Owen and Blakeway (1825) recorded that when the foundations were dug in 1783 for the new County Hall, appearances of a great deposit of something like manure were there discovered <1>
Owen (1808) went into more detail: on removing the soil for the reception of the new foundations, a regular stratum was discovered several feet below the surface, on which grain, straw, dung of cattle, and nut-shells appeared, as if it had been once a stable or farm-yard <2>
Henry Pidgeon later (1837) recorded that the foundations were taken 19 feet down [-5.79m] without natural being encountered <3>
The 1783 foundations were of masonry over piles and horizontal beams, and failed within fifty years. From Henry Pidgeon's account of the work that followed an overall depth of c.8.8m of waterlogged deposit may be estimated (see site 60120) <4>
Sources
| [01] | SSA623 - Monograph: Owen H & Blakeway J B. 1822. History of Shrewbury. Vol 1. p31 n4. |
| [02] | SSA5372 - Monograph: Owen H. 1808. Some Account of the Ancient and Present State of Shrewsbury. p411. |
| [03] | SSA10341 - Monograph: Pidgeon H. 1837. Memorials of Shrewsbury. p114-115. |
| [04] | SSA20432 - HER comment: Baker Nigel J. UAD Analysis. |
| Date Last Edited: | Sep 28 2021 9:21AM |
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