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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shrewsbury TumulusCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Greater London Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Woolwich
Map Ref: TQ439771 Landranger Map Number: 177
Latitude: 51.474567N Longitude: 0.070602E
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 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 |
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Phaistos visited on 1st Jun 2025 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 5 An incredible survivor from the bronze age surrounded by south east London suburbs. Visit at sunset on a summer day and you'll appreciate why this barrow - originally one of a group of 6 - was erected at the top of Shooters Hill. Although it's fenced off, overgrown with trees and grass, and heavily eroded, it's still possible to feel a connection with the ancient past. The venerable corroded information sign from Greenwich Council adds to the atmosphere.
This part of London is known to have had a cluster of six burial mounds. Three of them formed a linear group, with the remaining two possibly forming or contributing to a second group. The barrows would have been located at the ‘false horizon’ position where they could be seen silhouetted against the sky from the foot of the hill. Maps show that in the mid C19 the barrow stood within the grounds of the mid-C19 Tower House, and it is illustrated with a ring of trees – only some of which remain.
Before the area was filled with houses, it was the estate of the Earls of Shrewsbury, whose 18th-century mansion, Shrewsbury House, was replaced in 1923 by a new house of the same name, now a library and community centre.
The grounds of Shrewsbury House were leased for an LCC Open Air School from 1908 and in 1928 the LCC purchased part of the grounds for public open space, which became Shrewsbury Park. In the 1930s remaining areas of the former grounds were developed for housing, notably John Laing and Son’s Shrewsbury Park Estate, designed on Garden City principles.
Just the one burial mound survived, now called Shrewsbury Tumulus after the nearby mansion house.
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