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Monument Number 872028
Hob Uid: 872028
Location : Birmingham Non Civil Parish
Grid Ref : SP0930082000
Summary : Pair of Bronze Age burnt mounds. Moseley, Wake Green. They lie adjacent to the banks of the Coldbath Brook. Scheduled.
More information : SP 094 820. Coldbath Brook. Moseley, Wake Green, "Moseley Bog". Deposit of 'potboilers' c30cm thick extending for about 8m along stream, exposed in both banks. Discovered 16th November 1980 by LH Barfield. [Note in gazetteer of burnt mounds in the S Birmingham area]. (1) Pair of burnt mounds adjacent to the Coldbath Brook, oriented East-West. The mounds straddle the brook being circa 11m apart from centre to centre. The West mound is 13m in diameter, the eastern, visible in section, is circa 3.5m across. Both consist of burnt and heat-crazed cobbles. C-14 determinations give a date of circa 1000 BCE. Scheduled. (2)

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Source details : W Midlands Archaeol 23 1980 13 (MJ Nixon)
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Monument Period Name : Bronze Age
Display Date : Bronze Age
Monument End Date : -700
Monument Start Date : -2600
Monument Type : Burnt Mound
Evidence : Structure

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 35111
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SP 08 SE 31
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Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1997-01-01
End Date : 1997-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 872028