MONUMENT NO. 107136

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Bronze Age round barrow or ploughed down prehistoric or Roman enclosure, or motte and bailey, surviving as an earthwork. The cropmark remains of large circular enclosure with two annex enclosures were seen occupying the same location as the alleged round barrow and mapped from aerial photographs. Scheduled.

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(SO 31528504) Tumulus (NR). (1)

Remnant of a castle mount now ploughed over and reduced in height.(2)

Wrongly classified in VCH, it has every appearance of a round barrow.(3-4)

Rejected as castle site.(5)

A grass covered round barrow, 27.0m in diameter, 2.0m in height, situated upon a false crest on a S facing slope of pasture. No visible remains of a ditch.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. (6)

SO 315 850. Acton Bank round barrow. Scheduled. (7)

The cropmark remains of a large circular enclosure with two annex enclosures was seen occupying the same site as the mound noted by previous authorities and mapped from aerial photographs. The main enclosure is centred at SO 3152 8503, but it is not clear from the aerial photographs if there are any traces of a mound remaining. The enclosure is defined by a thick ditch with a diameter of c28m, and appears to have an inner enclosure and traces of four large pits or post holes (possibly the remains of a building or tower). Attached to the south side is a ditch-defined annex with an entrance to the south, which has a second annex enclosure attached to its western side.
The site may be the remains of a ploughed out motte and bailey, but without further fieldwork a prehistoric origin cannot be ruled out.
(8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2) edited by William Page 1908 The Victoria history of Shropshire: volume one

The Victoria history of the counties of England (J C Wall & E A Downman) 1908 Page(s)386

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Corr 6" (L F Chitty undated)

( 4) General reference

CBA Gp 2 AW No 4 1964 11 (C J Spurgeon)

( 5) Archaeologia Cambrensis

(A H A Hogg & D J C King) 119- 1970 Page(s)121

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 06-DEC-73

(7) English Heritage 1995 County list of Scheduled Monuments : March 1994

SAM List Salop Page(s)22

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