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Monument Number 307557
Hob Uid: 307557
Location : Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands Waterhouses
Grid Ref : SK1134749519
Summary : A Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork, measuring approximately 25 metres in diameter. The barrow was excavated in 1848, from which a primary inhumation accompanied by a flint implement and bronze dagger, and a second inhumation were recorded. The barrow is visible on air photographs and was mapped as part of the Staffordshire National Mapping Programme project. The earthwork is extant on the latest 2010 vertical photography. Scheduled.
More information : (SK 11344951) Tumulus (NR) (Human remains found 1872). (1) A large bowl-shaped barrow called 'Thorncliff'. 26 yds in diameter and considerably elevated in the middle, opened by Carrington, 1848. A primary inhumation accompanied by a flint implement and a broken, rivetted bronze dagger and a secondary extended inhumation, described as probably an interment of much later date than the barrow itself, was found. The dagger is now in Sheffield Public Museum. Acc No J93-453. (2,3) A bowl barrow, 26.0m in average diameter and 2.2m high, with no visible ditch. The mound is under grass in a pasture. There is an old central mutilation. No details of the 1872 finds are known. (4) No change. (5) SK 1134 4951. Bowl barrow 510m north of Latham Hall. A slightly oval earth and stone mound up to 2m high with maximum dimensions of 27m by 26.5m. A central pit marks the site of the 19th century excavation (see Authy 2-3) and on the south-east side of the mound is a recently backfilled trench of a 1959 excavation in which no finds were recovered. Scheduled (RSM) No 13578. (6) The Bronze Age bowl barrow is visible as an earthwork on air photographs centred at SK 1134 4951. The barrow measures approximately 25 metres in diameter and has a near central pit. The barrow was mapped as part of the Staffordshire National Mapping Programme project and is extant on the latest 2010 vertical photography. (7)

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Source details : OS 6" 1924
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Source details : Ten Years' Diggings 1861 118-9 (T Bateman)
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Source details : Catalogue of the Bateman Collection 1899 74 (E Howarth)
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Source details : W C Woodhouse/16-NOV-1957/Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator
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Source details : A S Phillips/21-MAR-1974/Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigator
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Source Number : 6
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Source details : English Heritage SAM Amendment Staffordshire 04-JUN-1992
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Source Number : 7
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Source details : RAF/106G/UK/398 4016-17 17-JUN-1945
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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 : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation
Evidence : Earthwork, Find

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Extended Inhumation
Evidence : Find

Components and Objects:

Period : Bronze Age
Component Monument Type : Bowl Barrow, Inhumation
Object Type : DAGGER
Object Material : Bronze

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : ST 72
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 13578
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Staffordshire)
External Cross Reference Number : MST89
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SK 14 NW 6
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1848-01-01
End Date : 1848-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1872-01-01
End Date : 1872-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1957-11-16
End Date : 1957-11-16

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1959-01-01
End Date : 1959-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1974-03-21
End Date : 1974-03-21

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2013-01-01
End Date : 2014-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 307557