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Monument Number 306519
Hob Uid: 306519
Location : Staffordshire Lichfield Swinfen and Packington
Grid Ref : SK1223005980
Summary : Offlow Tumulus (site of): Me tile fragment.
More information : (SK 12230598) Offlow (Tumulus) (NR) (1) "..... At Swinfen, is all that remains of great Offa's burial mound. An arable field there is called Offlow (Offa's Low), and gives its name to an extensive Hundred of South Staffordshire. Repeated ploughings have all but defaced the mound." Offa died in 796 AD. (2) "Offlow, ... in all probability ... is not the burial place of Offa ... . According to the old writers, he was buried in a chapel near Bedford ..." Pape visited the site of Offlow at Easter 1934 and picked up a piece of Roman roofing tile there. The Rev E Deacon who was with him, suggested that Offlow might be a Roman barrow. (3) In 1938, Offlow was a low mound, 30 yards in diameter, and not more than about 2 feet high, but evidently much spread. It is so placed as to be in view of both Wall and probably Tamworth (4). This tumulus has now been demolished (5). (4-5) Ploughed down bowl barrow, 0.5m high, of indefinite out-line but roughly 30m in diameter. No visible ditch. (6) (SK 12230597) Tumulus (NR) (7) Now unrecognisable as a bowl barrow. Under pasture. Published survey (1:2500) revised. (8) The site was under the plough and there were no visible remains or surface finds. (9)

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Source details : OS 6" 1921 - 38.
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Source details : Cannock Chase 1903 12 (F W Hackwood)
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Source details : T N Staf F C 68 1933-4 154-5 (T Pape)
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Source details : Rec 6" (O G S Crawford) 2.3.38
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Source details : SS Reviser Nov 1949
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : F1 VJB 26-MAR-58
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Source details : OS 6" 1970
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Source Number : 8
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Source details : F2 DJC 03-APR-74
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Source Number : 9
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Source details : F3 JR 14-JUL-76
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Round Barrow
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Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Findspot
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Components and Objects:

Period : Roman
Component Monument Type : Findspot
Object Type : TILE
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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 10 NW 3
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1958-03-26
End Date : 1958-03-26

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1974-04-03
End Date : 1974-04-03

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1976-07-14
End Date : 1976-07-14

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 306519