| HER Number (PRN): | 01169 |
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| Name: | Earthwork c 420m SSW of Broadward Bridge |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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Protected Status: | None recorded |
Monument Type(s):
Summary
Earthwork of a possible round barrow of Bronze Age date.
| Parish: | Clungunford, South Shropshire, Shropshire |
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| Map Sheet: | SO37NE |
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| Grid Reference: | SO 3928 7638 |
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Related records
| 03347 | Related to: Motte castle 510m east of Broadward Hall (Broadward Tumulus) (Monument) |
Associated Finds
- FSA2437 - WEIGHT (Late Bronze Age - 1200 BC to 700 BC)
Associated Events
- ESA1571 - 1973 field observation by the Ordnance Survey
- ESA7065 - 2010 Excavation of the Broadward Bronze Age Enclosure, S of Broadward Hall by University of Worcester
- ESA7066 - 2010 topographic survey S of Broadward Hall by University of Worcester
Description
A circular plateau, 125ft at the top, with low escarpment near Broadward Hall <1a>
A low, circular, glacial morainic mound, which on account of its local acceptance as a tumulus has been avoided by the plough. The result is a central area 40m in diameter by 1.6m high at centre, covered with rough pasture and bounded by a plough baulk, being isolated within a pasture field, thereby accentuating its barrow-like appearance. However, the natural slopes of the mound extend W and S beyond the published slopes for a further 10 to 15m as a gently-falling bumpy pasture . 100m to the E is a similar, lower glacial mound. OS FI 1973 <1>
Photographed from the air in March 2000. <3>
Photographed in the 2008 aerial photographic survey. <4><5>
As part of a programme of investigation of the Broadward Hoard [see PRN 00746], three sections were excavated across the enclosure ditch of this. A trench was also opened across the SE entrance and in the centre of the feature. ->
-> The south-eastern causeway or entrance was about 4m wide. A pit was discovered just inside the southern ditch terminal (context 3006). It extended beyond the excavated area
and its exact shape and dimensions are unknown. The part that was excavated had gently sloping sides and a concave base and was 25cm deep. It contained a single fill of rounded
gravel in a brown sandy-loam matrix. Within this was the lower part of a fired clay weight that had been placed upside down in the ground. ->
-> This raises the possibility that the site played a specialised role and might have been in use at about the time when weapons were buried beside the nearby spring. <6>
Sources
| [00] | SSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 01169. |
| [01a] | SSA178 - Volume: Victoria County History. 1908. Victoria County History 1. Victoria County History of Shropshire. Vol 1. p385. |
| [01] | SSA4657 - Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1973. Ordnance Survey Record Card SO37NE44 . Ordnance Survey record cards. SO37NE44 . |
| [02] | SSA17148 - Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1987-Jan-03. CPAT 87/MB/0116. Black and White. Medium. |
| [03] | SSA21428 - Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 2000-Mar-05. CPAT 00/MB/2002. Black and White. Medium. |
| [04] | SSA25376 - Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2008-Jul-26. SA0811_101 to SA0811_102 (2 photos) Flight: 08_SA_11. Colour. Digital. |
| [05] | SSA25377 - Oblique aerial photograph: Shropshire Council. 2008-Jul-26. SA0811_103 to SA0811_107 (5 photos) Flight: 08_SA_11. Colour. Digital. |
| [06] | SSA24733 - Article in serial: Bradley R, Lewis J, Mullin D and Branch N. 2015. 'Where water wells up from the earth': excavations at the findspot of the Late Bronze Age hoad from Broadward, Shropshire. Antiq J. 95. pp.21-64. |
| Date Last Edited: | May 9 2022 9:20AM |
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