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Multi-periodSite Name: Montem mound Alternative Name: Salt HillCountry: England County: Berkshire Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Slough Nearest Village: Salt Hill
Map Ref: SU9665880045
Latitude: 51.511075N Longitude: 0.608554W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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The 'Montem' mound at Salt Hill in Berkshire is 34m diameter and 6m high. It has been found to be Anglo-Saxon, not Norman. Carbon dating of charcoal and burnt wheat grains gave a date range of 425-765 AD, making this mound contemporary with Taeppa’s mound just a few miles upstream on the Thames, and also with the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
Taeppa’s mound is smaller than Montem, being 24m diameter, 4.5m high, but both mounds would have been slightly larger originally.
Montem mound is sited on a northern branch of the Thames. On the southern branch at Eton, there was a substantial 2m wide timber bridge dated 1520 - 1220 BC, one of the earliest bridges found on the Thames. The mound at Slough, then, was near to a major Thames crossing.
Information from:
The Round Mounds Project
Buckinghamshire HER record
Unpublished document: Oxford Archaeological Unit. 1995. The Eton College Rowing Lake, Dorney, South Bucks..
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