Monument Type(s):

• BOWL BARROW (Bronze Age - 2600 BC to 700 BC)
• (Alternate Type) MOTTE? (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1540 AD)

Summary

Scheduled Monument: A particularly well-preserved example of a Bronze Age burial mound, the Old Shop Farm barrow now lies, unusually, within a modern settlement and close to a main road.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA983 - 1970 field observation by English Heritage
• ESA984 - 1973 field observation by the Ordnance Survey
• ESA985 - 1979 field observation by English Heritage
• ESA986 - 1982 field observation by English Heritage
• ESA8018 - 2016 Trial trenching on land at Old Shop Farm, Welshampton, Shropshire by Castlering Archaeology (Ref: 16/04152/DIS)

Description

At the east end of Welsh Hampton is still a small mound supposed to have been a barrow <1a>
A round barrow situated on the top of a pasture-covered ridge, with a diameter of 20m and a height of 2.2m. A shallow ditch on the E side has been reduced and spread by ploughing, and is 10m wide and 0.4m deep. OS FI 1973 <1>

Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, High score as one of 93 Bowl Barrows <6>

Scheduling revised in 1999. Scheduling description: ->

-> The monument includes the earthwork and buried remains of a Bronze Age bowl barrow situated on level ground immediately to the south of the main road that runs through Welshampton. From this location there are extensive views of the surrounding countryside. ->

-> The barrow mound, which is of earthen construction, is about 20m in diameter and survives to a height of 2.2m. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch from which material was quarried during the construction of the barrow, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature approximately 3m wide. ->

-> A number of features are excluded from the scheduling these are; an outbuilding to the south of the house at Old Shop Farm and associated yard surfaces and garden features; all modern field and enclosure boundaries that surround the monument; the telegraph pole and the base fixment for the supporting cable, and the pavement that runs alongside the monument next to the main road; the ground beneath all these features is, however, included. <7>

A shallow 10m wide ditch on its east side has been reduced and spread by ploughing. <8>

An evaluation was carried out on a site to the west and south of the barrow in 2016. This recorded no associated features, with no evidence predating the 20th century identified. <9>

Included in a gazetteer of castles in Shropshire, as a possible motte. <10>

Additional references noted by the NRHE. <11>
(SJ 43593498) (<1a>) At the east end of Welsh Hampton village is still a small mound supposed to have been a barrow, a second one within 50 yds of it having been removed in 1873 to make way for a house. This mound, 12 feet in height above the road, consisted almost entirely of gravel and no finds of any kind were made (<1a><4><11a>). Auden mentions a mound in "Moat Meadow" at
Welshampton, supposed locally to be the site of a "Castle" <11b> presumably the one shown on APs at SJ 43583499 <11c>.

A round barrow, situated at SJ 43573499 upon the top of a pasture-covered ridge, has a diameter of 20.0m and a height of 2.2m. A shallow ditch on the E side has been reduced and spread by ploughing, and is 10.0m in width, 0.4m in depth. The feature is known to the farm-owner Mr Lloyd, as "The Round Barrow". About 40.0m to the E of the barrow at SJ 43613501, a house, probably that erected in 1873 stands upon a raised area of levelled, made-up ground, which could well be the base of a second, destroyed mound, probably another round barrow. Several local enquiries of elderly villagers and of a farmer failed to locate 'Moat Meadow' and there appears to be no local tradition of the site of a 'castle' at Welshampton. Barrow surveyed at 1:2500. <11d>

Sources

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