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Monument Types

• ROUND BARROW (Early Anglo Saxon - 410 AD to 649 AD)
• PROSPECT MOUND (Early Post-medieval - 1540 AD to 1699 AD)

Summary

In 1931 a mound 7' high and 25' in diameter, situated within a rectangular earthwork, was excavated. Fragments of a rim and three enamelled escutcheons of a hanging bowl were recovered. A C7th date was suggested. The mound was retained as a prospect mound.

Additional Information

<1> Historic England, National Heritage List for England, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1017678 (Website). SLE7874.

"Scheduled Monument description extract:
In the northern part of the monument are the earthwork remains of an Anglo- Saxon burial mound (a hlaew). It stands approximately 2m high and is 14m in diameter. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the hlaew, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature, approximately 3m wide. The mound was partly excavated in the 1930s and pottery fragments and the enamelled escutcheons from a 7th century hanging bowl were recovered."
Scheduled 04/10/1957, most recent amendment 24/10/1997

<2> Antiquaries Journal, Vol 12 (1932), p174-5 (Journal). SLE5.

In July 1931 AJ Pickering excavated a mound 7' high and 25' in diameter situated within a rectangular earthwork. He found fragments of a turned over rim and 3 escutcheons (enamelled) of a hanging bowl found with a small flint implement and a few flint spalls on the original level below the centre of the mound. A 7th century date was suggested.

<3> Leicestershire SMR Comment, RFH 01/09/86 (Unpublished document). SLE7870.

RFH has surveyed the earthworks. He interprets them as the garden of a Hall or manor house. The barrow seems to have been retained as a prospect mound.

<4> Hartley R F, 2008, Medieval Earthworks of South-West Leicestershire (Hinckley & Bosworth), p63-64 (Bibliographic reference). SLE1014.

"North of the fishponds is a mound, apparently a prospect mound. However its origins may be much older, as it was dug into many years ago and part of an Anglo-Saxon hanging bowl was discovered."

<5> 2016, National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) accessioning (Website). SLE4981.

SUMMARY: "The monument includes the earthwork remains of an Anglo-Saxon burial mound (a hlaew). It stands approximately 2 metres high and is 14 metres in diameter. Although no longer visible at ground level, a ditch, from which material was quarried during the construction of the hlaew, surrounds the mound. This has become infilled over the years but survives as a buried feature 3 metres wide. The mound was partly excavated in the 1930s and pottery fragments and the enamelled escutcheons from a 7th century hanging bowl were recovered. Scheduled."
URL: 'https://nrhe-to-her.esdm.co.uk/NRHE/RecordDetail.aspx?pageid=45&he_uid=336104', accessioned 17/12/2024.

<6> Ordance Survey Archaeology Division, Annotated Record Map, Records 6" M Paul Dare 1925 (Map). SLE7735.

(SP 39699704) Tumulus 7 ft high

<7> Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 (6") and 10K historic mapping, 1968 (Map). SLE7243.

(SP 39699703) Tumulus (NR)

<8> Virtual catalogue entry to support NAR migration, Archaeological society of Leicestershire and Rutland Catalogue 19 (F Cottrill) (Unpublished document). SLE7248.

The fragments of the bowl are in Leicester Museum.

<9> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, F1 DS 01-MAR-60 (Website). SLE3488.

Mr C R Hall of Park House Farm thought that some Anglo-Saxon trinket had been found in the mound when it was excavated but could not remember clearly. The mound, now mutilated, has been re-surveyed (see Illust Card).

<10> Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Field Investigators Comments, F2 JB 21-JUN-72 (Website). SLE3488.

There is no 'rectangular earthwork' (Auth 3) around the barrow, but the description fits a feature approx. 20 metres to the North. This is probably the remains of early landscaping associated with 'The Moats' (fishponds) to the South. It is in no way defensive.
The barrow is now only c. 1.0m high and is surmounted by a horse chestnut tree which could well be 50 or more years old; if this is so it would have made excavation dificult.
No evidence for another mound in the area was obtained during investigation. Published survey (25" 1963) correct.
(Mr C Hall (Park House Farm) is now elderly but recollects an excavation "some 40 years" ago in this mound after which the chestnut tree was transplanted into the excavated hole.)

<11> Meaney, Audrey, 1964, Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites, p149 (Bibliographic reference). SLE6107.

<12> Geake, Helen, 1997, The use of grave-goods in conversion-period England, c.600-c.850, p167, p261? (Bibliographic reference). SLE7373.

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Associated Finds

• HANGING BOWL (Early Anglo Saxon to Middle Anglo Saxon - 601 AD to 700 AD)

Designations

• Conservation Area: Stoke Golding
• Scheduled Monument 1017678: HLAEW AND MEDIEVAL FARMSTEAD IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST OF PARK HOUSE

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