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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Burgs - Hillfort in England in Shropshire

Submitted by TimPrevett on Monday, 13 February 2006  Page Views: 10633

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: The Burgs
Country: England County: Shropshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Shrewsbury  Nearest Village: Bayston Hill
Map Ref: SJ48950873
Latitude: 52.673857N  Longitude: 2.75643W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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The Burgs
The Burgs submitted by VirtHist : Took this on a very wet day! Interesting that this Iron Age hillfort ended up with an Anglo-Danish name. Wonder if it was re-used. The same seems to have apllied to the nearby Berth hillfort, which, if we look back to the 17th Century, was called The Burgh. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Shropshire

A bivallate hillfort, relatively low lying, on the south east side of Bayston Hill, south of Shrewsbury.
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The Burgs
The Burgs submitted by TimPrevett : The Burgs viewed from the south east. February 2006. The upper (back) line of trees delineates the inner rampart, the outer being less easy to make out. This visit did not permit a closer look, but hopefully a future visit will help find more. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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SJ4808 : On The Burgs Iron Age hillfort by Andrew Shannon
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SJ4908 : Newborn lambs on the Burgs hillfort near Bayston Hill by Jeremy Bolwell
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SJ4908 : Commanding view from The Burgs Iron Age hillfort by Andrew Shannon
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SJ4908 : Footpath on the Burgs hillfort above old Bayston Hill by Jeremy Bolwell
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Re: Roman road not Roman after all by Andy B on Sunday, 15 April 2012
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For many archaeologists, "Is it Roman?" is an all too familiar question from an intrigued member of the public, seeing anything from a bronze age barrow to an Anglo-Saxon cemetery. Some of our most enduring and iconic remains are Roman. Roman roads epitomise an epoch in our history, with traces which can be seen in the landscape today – modern roads often still follow their alignments. There is therefore a common perception that one of the things that the Romans did for us, was to create our road system.

Roman roads are popularly imagined to head relentlessly straight to their destination. They typically consist of a consolidated embanked and cambered core of earth, puddled chalk or stones (the agger), surfaced with compacted stone or gravel. This roadway is set within a wider zone often defined by boundary ditches, and sometimes containing further drainage ditches, or trenches from which material for the agger was dug (borrow pits).

Read the feature article from British Archaeology:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba120/feat1.shtml (archive link)
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    Re: Roman road not Roman after all by Andy B on Sunday, 24 February 2019
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    Full publication is in volume 85 (2011) of the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society.

    Volume 85 – entitled Sharpstone Hill and the Wall, Kynnersley

    Sharpstone Hill and Meole Brace in the Iron Age and Roman Periods: Introduction, by Roger White and Andy Wrigley
    An Engineered Iron Age Road, Associated Roman Use (Margary Route 64), and Bronze Age Activity
    Recorded at Sharpstone Hill, 2009, by Tim Malim and Laurence Hayes
    The Walls of Troy: A Classical Labyrinth at The Wall, Kynnersley, by Caroline Malim and Tim Malim
    https://shropshirearchaeologyhistory.org/publications/
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Roman road not Roman after all by Andy B on Sunday, 15 April 2012
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Item from March 2011: A discovery at Tarmac’s Bayston Hill quarry in Shropshire (about 1km SE of The Burgs ancient fort) has thrown into question the belief that Roman invaders introduced modern road technology roads to Britain.

Excavations carried out by environmental consultants SLR at the site suggest that the Romans may have made use of existing roads engineered by Iron Age Britons.

The find shows that a metalled and cambered roadway, was constructed in the first century BC – a 100 years before the Emperor Claudius sent troops to conquer Britain.

Tim Malim, who directed the SLR archaeology team said: “The age and location of this find suggests that its construction was not as a result of Roman influence. It could well indicate that Iron Age Britons were sophisticated road engineers in their own right and had developed the technological expertise to build sophisticated all-weather roadways for wheeled traffic. The road is more than 1.5m high and 6m wide, constructed in three distinct phases and surfaced with imported river cobbles.”

Bayston Hill Quarry, ShropshireMalcolm Lawer, Estates Manager for Tarmac said: “This is an exciting discovery which we understand may change the accepted view that the Romans built the earliest roads in Britain. As the UK’s largest and oldest quarrying company, Tarmac uncovers many archaeological finds, so we take our responsibility to preserving and cataloguing our heritage very seriously, and work alongside companies like SLR to do so.”

So far 400 metres have of road have been unearthed and it is thought it may have connected the capital of the Cornovian tribe at the Wrekin with the Old Oswestry hill fort near Oswestry. Archeologists have discovered evidence of animal dung and dung beetles indicating that prior to construction of the road it had been used in more ancient times as a livestock droveway.

The find at a Tarmac quarry is a fitting continuity, linking the UK’s leading road maker of today with the experts from our ancient past. The stone at Bayston Hill is also particularly high quality, and is used in roads and motorways across the UK, as well as in Grand Prix circuits such as Bahrain and Abu Dhabi.

See more on the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-12767319
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