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Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm is a prehistoric burial mound located 220 metres north-east of St Michael's Church in Shropshire. The monument consists of a bowl-shaped earthwork characteristic of Bronze Age funerary practice, representing a widespread burial tradition across Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain. Such barrows typically functioned as communal or individual burial sites and often contained inhumations or cremations within or beneath the mound structure. The site's survival as an upstanding earthwork preserves important archaeological evidence of prehistoric settlement and funerary custom in the region.
Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm, 220m north east of St Michael's Church is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016668. View the official record →
Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm is a prehistoric burial mound located 220 metres north-east of St Michael's Church in Shropshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016668.
Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm, 220m north east of St Michael's Church is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1016668.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ellesmere Castle: a motte and bailey castle 200m south west of St Mary's Church (3.2 km), Haulton Ring Moated Site (4 km), Motte castle on the north bank of Crose Mere, 730m south west of Whattal Farm (4.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm, 220m north east of St Michael's Church's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bowl barrow at Old Shop Farm, 220m north east of St Michael's Church stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.