| HER Number (PRN): | 01174 |
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| Name: | Bowl Barrow on Old Field, 700m SE of Ludlow Golf Course Club House |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 19117: Bowl barrow on Old Field |
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Monument Types
Summary
Scheduled Monument: One of a group of burial mounds of probable Bronze Age date on Ludlow Golf Course, this one yielded evidence of cremation burials when partially excavated in the 19th century.
| Parish: | Bromfield, South Shropshire, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SO47NE |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 4956 7736 |
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Related records
| 03056 | Related to: Barrow on Old Field, 620m ESE of Ludlow Golf Course Club House (Monument) |
| 01173 | Related to: Northern of two barrows, Old Field, 600m ESE of Ludlow Golf Course Club House (Monument) |
| 01172 | Related to: Robin Hood's Butt: Bowl Barrow 190m N of Ludlow Golf Course Club House (Monument) |
| 03037 | Related to: Site of a Probable Barrow at Big Brook destoyed in 1852. (Monument) |
| 03039 | Related to: Southern of Two Barrows, Old Field, 600m ESE of Ludlow Golf Course Club House (Monument) |
| 02036 | Related to: Two ring ditches on northern edge of Ludlow Golf Club (Monument) |
Associated Finds
- FSA219 - BURIAL URN (1) (Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age - 2350 BC to 701 BC)
Associated Events
- ESA1583 - 1884 excavation of Barrow B5, Old Fields, Bromfield, by Charles Fortey
- ESA1584 - 1973 field observation by the Ordnance Survey
- ESA1585 - 1981 field observation by English Heritage
Description
A large round barrow on Ludlow Golf Course, 35m in diameter, 2.5m high. On the N side is an old excavation trench dug from the perimeter almost to the centre of the mound, and the SE quadrant of the mound has been dug away in recent years in the construction of the greens. The barrow is turf covered and surmounted by a sycamore tree. There are no visible remains of a ditch. OS FI 1973 <1>
A cinerary urn in Ludlow Museum, stated by the VCH to have come from PRN 01172, is probably the urn found in this barrow. OS Records comment. 1976 <1>
Barrow No 5. A barrow over 90ft in diameter and c 8ft high. Excavated in 1884; 2ft form the top of the mound a cinerary urn (shattered by digging) was found and at a depth of 7ft a cremated burial in a cist <3c>
Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, High score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <7>
The monument includes the remains of a large round barrow situated on flat ground between the River Teme to the south-west and the River Corve to the north-east. The barrow mound, though damaged in the north and south-east quadrants, remains visible as a well defined mound 35m in diameter and up to 3.4m high. Although no longer visible at surface level, 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 3m wide. On the north side of the mound an old excavation trench has been driven from the perimeter of the mound into the centre at ground level. This probably represents the site of an excavation by C Fortey in 1884. Finds from this excavation included a cinerary urn, which was shattered during the digging, found some 2ft from the mound summit and a cremated burial in a cist located at a depth of 7ft. A second larger excavation, possibly also associated with the 1884 works, has removed much of the south-east segment of the mound down to ground level. However as there is no spoil from this excavation it seems more probable that the mutilation is associated with the construction of the golf course <8>
Sources
| 00 | SSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 01174 |
| 01a | SSA178 - Volume: Victoria County History. 1908. Victoria County History 1. Victoria County History of Shropshire. Vol 1. p203 |
| 01 | SSA4680 - Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1976. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO47NE11 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO47NE11 . |
| 02 | SSA17155 - Oblique aerial photograph: Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust. 1989. Oblique View, 1989. |
| 03a | SSA1841 - Monograph: Stanford S C. 1980. The Archaeology of the Welsh Marches. p68-71 with plan |
| 03b | SSA2100 - Article in serial: Stanford S C. 1982. Bromfield, Shropshire: Neolithic, Beaker and Bronze Age Sites, 1966 -79. Proc Prehist Soc. Vol 48. p279-280 |
| 03c | SSA4670 - Article in serial: Fortey C. 1885. Article in the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Ser 1, Vol VIII (=Vol 8). p445-449. |
| 03 | SSA4684 - Field Monument Warden Report: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission (HBMC). 1983. Scheduled Monument Report on SAM 14936. |
| 04 | SSA4683 - Photograph: Watson Michael D. 1984. Barrow, Ludlow Racecourse. Colour. |
| 05 | SSA4681 - Scheduled Monument notification: Department of the Environment (DoE). 1973. Map of Scheduled area, 1973. |
| 06 | SSA169 - Correspondence: Various. 1992. Correspondence, 1992. |
| 07 | SSA20084 - TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File. |
| 08 | SSA4682 - Scheduled Monument notification: English Heritage. 1994. Scheduling Papers (Revised Scheduling, 17/02/1994). 19117. |
| Date Last Edited: | 20/08/2008 |
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