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Monument Number 106684
Hob Uid: 106684
Location : Shropshire Hopton Castle
Grid Ref : SO3683076510
Summary : The earthwork and buried remains of a bowl barrow, situated at the top of a natural knoll. The barrow includes an earthern mound which has been created by artificially steepening the sides of the knoll. The cropmark remains of this barrow were visible as a ring ditch with traces of a second inner ditch. Adjacent to this were the cropmark remains of a possible later Prehistoric enclosure. The site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the RCHME: Marches Uplands Mapping Project.
More information : (SO 3676 7654) Tumulus (NR) (1) Hopton Castle. Rabbit Berries; an oval mound 18 ft high with a broad and natural scarp, no signs of a ditch. Listed under Mottes. (2) This is a barrow and not a motte. (3) A large, rounded, pasture-covered glacial morainic mound, 45.0m in diameter, 5.0m in height, with further gentler slopes falling away to N and S, is situated, typically, at the entrance to a side valley. The present profiles of the mound, which has been under the plough, show no evidence of it having been surmounted by a round barrow. Published 1:2500 survey revised. (4) SO 367 765. Round barrow 1100yds (1005m) N of Bedstone. Scheduled. (5) The cropmark remains of the probable Bronze Age bowl barrow described by the previous authorities were seen centred at SO 3675 7652. The site was visible as a ring ditch with a diameter of c.17m, with traces of a second inner ditch. Immediately to the east at SO 3683 7651 were the cropmark remains of a fragmented rectilinear enclosure and further fragmented ditches which may be of Later Prehistoric date. This measured c45m x 40m. These features were mapped from aerial photographs as part of the RCHME: Marches Uplands Mapping Project. (6)

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Source details : Ordnance Survey 6" 1963
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Source details : Correspondents Annotated 6" Sheet AJ Bird 01/05/1953
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Source details : First OS Archaeology Field Investigator 15/10/1973
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Source details : English Heritage SAM List Shropshire March 1994 p21
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Source details : English Heritage Schedule Entry 01/08/1996
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Source details : NMR SO 3676/1-3 23-JUN-1989
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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, Ring Ditch
Evidence : Earthwork, Cropmark

Monument Period Name : Later Prehistoric
Display Date : Later Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -4000
Monument Type : Rectilinear Enclosure, Ditch
Evidence : Cropmark

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : SA 284
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 27532
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External Cross Reference Source : MORPH2
External Cross Reference Number : MU 285.1
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Shropshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1165
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SO 37 NE 39
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-10-15
End Date : 1973-10-15

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1993-01-01
End Date : 1994-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 106684