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Submitted by TheWhiteRider on Sunday, 15 October 2006 Page Views: 5903
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Belair Bowl BarrowCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 0.676 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Shropshire Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Craven Arms Nearest Village: Wistanstow
Map Ref: SO430840
Latitude: 52.450969N Longitude: 2.840157W
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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A possible bowl barrow on private land, partly destroyed by a railway embankment.
The site is extremely difficult to get a look at. Firstly ignore suggestions on the OS Explorer map that there is an accessible path crossing the railway lines and passing close by the barrow. We parked at the Onny Fields car park close to the ugly new railway bridge and after following some confusing public footpath signs across a couple of muddy fields were presented with recently constructed high fencing and no clear or safe access across the railway lines. Another permissive path between Cheney Longville also ends abruptly at a briar patch and impassable fences alongside the railway.
Undeterred we backtracked, crossed the railway bridge and decided to try the route marked as an accessible path from the other direction. This takes you past the frontages of several homes close to the A49 and suddenly ends at a heavily overgrown track. We hacked our way through this until it reached a dead end close to the railway lines. Glimpses of the possible barrow topped by an old Oak and the close by, but now dried up, pond (referred to by Chitty and others on the Archsearch entry) were only afforded by crawling through undergrowth to the edge of a fence.
The barrow itself appears as quite a slight mound topped by an oak tree. Doubt about its Bronze Age origin centers on its close proximity to a pond and suggestions that the mound is the result of digging the pond. If this is true it must have been dug hundreds of years ago because of the great age of the oak tree.
An intriguing, but quite frustrating visit. The state of the footpaths was poor in this area and no consideration that a public footpath crosses the railway seems to have been made. A few more intrepid walkers than us have clearly crossed the new fence as it is damaged on both sides of the tracks, but as this would have got us no closer to the barrow we turned back. The route marked as an accessible public path simply isn't from the West side of the railway line and on the other side is extremely overgrown and abandoned as a path. Happy to have finally got a slight view of this possible barrow, but a visit with the landowners permission would be the only way to have a proper look.
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