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Monument Number 336104
Hob Uid: 336104
Location : Leicestershire Hinckley and Bosworth Stoke Golding
Grid Ref : SP3969097030
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.
More information : (SP 39699704) Tumulus 7 ft high (1) (SP 39699703) Tumulus (NR) (2) An earthen mound 7 ft high and about 25 ft in diameter, situated within a rectangular earthwork at Stoke Golding, in which the fragments of an Anglo Saxon hanging bowl were found together with a small flint implement, at the centre of the mound and on the original level, July 1931. The barrow probably belongs to the same series as that excavated at Asthall, Oxon (Ant J 4 113) dated to the 7th cent. (3) The fragments of the bowl are in Leicester Museum. (4) 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) (5) 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.) (6)

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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Prehistoric
Display Date : Prehistoric
Monument End Date : 43
Monument Start Date : -500000
Monument Type : Findspot
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Monument Period Name : Early Medieval
Display Date : C7
Monument End Date : 699
Monument Start Date : 600
Monument Type : Barrow
Evidence : Earthwork, Sub Surface Deposit

Components and Objects:

Period : Prehistoric
Component Monument Type : Findspot
Object Type : LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Object Material : Flint

Period : Early Medieval
Component Monument Type : Barrow
Object Type : HANGING BOWL, VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Leicestershire)
External Cross Reference Number : 39NE R
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : LE 127
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 21673
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 39 NE 4
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Relationship type : General association

Related Activities :

Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1931-01-01
End Date : 1931-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1960-03-01
End Date : 1960-03-01

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1972-06-21
End Date : 1972-06-21

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 336104