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Multi-periodSite Name: Moseley Bog Burnt MoundCountry: England County: West Midlands Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Birmingham
Map Ref: SP0934382043
Latitude: 52.436283N Longitude: 1.863996W
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 |
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The composition of the mound is exposed in the stream banks as a layer of heat-shattered stones and charcoal nearly 14m long and about 30cm thick in one bank and a thinner layer 4m long in the other. On one side of the stream the mound survives as a low but prominent mound about 12.5m long and 6.5m wide, and on the other it is crossed by a path. Heat-shattered stones are visible on the eroded path surface. The visible remains suggest that the mound is approximately circular and is about 13m in diameter. A resistivity survey in 1998 confirmed the extent of the mound, as an area of high resistance, on the path side of the stream and located a possible former stream channel. On the other side of the stream an area of low resistance may indicate the location of a pit or trough under the mound. Samples of charcoal from the stream bank at Moseley Bog have been dated to about 1100BC by the radiocarbon method.
A second burnt mound is located about 11m east of the first and is visible as a layer of heat-shattered stones 3.3m long and up to 4cm thick in the north bank of the stream. The site was scheduled as an ancient monument in 2002.( Information from data sheet by Mike Hodder, Planning Archaeologist, Birmingham City Council).
For more information see Historic England List ID 1020542, Pastscape Monument No. 872028 and the Birmingham City Council webpage for Moseley Bog.
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