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Submitted by TheWhiteRider on Monday, 10 July 2006  Page Views: 6155

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Castle Farm
Country: England County: Shropshire Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Telford  Nearest Village: Priorslee
Map Ref: SJ724095
Latitude: 52.682486N  Longitude: 2.409699W
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
Destroyed Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
1 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.
1 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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Castle Farm
Castle Farm submitted by TheWhiteRider : All that remains of Castle Farm Iron Age Fort is this reservoir. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Hillfort in Shropshire

An Iron Age, double-ditched enclosure or fort of 2.5 acres visible as a crop mark until 1980 when the site was inundated during the construction of a reservoir.

Excavations of the site were carried out prior to its destruction and suggested that initially the site was abandoned before completion only to be re-fortified with a second ditch during the Roman period. A very limited amount of dating evidence was found during the excavation suggesting that the site was only occupied briefly, if at all. Watling Street and the Roman fort of Uxacona, on Red Hill, are nearby.

The site can be viewed from a layby just off the Castle Farm roundabout, but nothing remains to be seen.


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Castle Farm standing stone
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm standing stone looking north-east to Loch Creran. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm Barcaldine cairn A. Described as being of the Wessex type, encircled by a low, stone revetted bank, and both cairn and bank have been built on an artificial platform about 22 metres in diameter. The cairn itself is 9.8 metres in diameter and stands 0.6 metres high. It is composed of small stones within a kerb of large boulders measuring up to 0.8 by 0.4 metres and protruding 0.8 a... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by crannog : NM 9108 4032 , Castle Farm nr Barcaldine. Listed as a reconstructed cairn. Looks like its been built on a platform also a possibility of once being a chambered cairn. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm Barcaldine cairn A (see other pics for details). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm Cairns Barcaldine. There are three cairns, A,B,C, see other pictures for cairn details, photo taken from the ridge where the standing stone is now located; the stone used to stand 3.1 metres from cairn A until it fell over. In the background you can see Castle Farm and Barcaldine Castle. (Area is actually nearer to Benderloch than Barcaldine)

Castle Farm standing stone
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm standing stone formerly stood 3.1 metres from the most westerly of the three nearby cairns when it fell, it was re-erected on its present site. As it now stands, it measures 0.45 by 0.15 metres at its base and stands 2.1 metres in height.

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by crannog : NM 9108 4032, Castle Farm nr Barcaldine.

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by crannog : NM9101 4029 , Castle Farm, nr Barcaldine. Cairns.

Castle Farm standing stone
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by caradoc68 : NM 911 402, Castle Farm, Barcaldine. ID NM94sw3... This standing stone formerly stood about 3.1 metres from the most westerly of the three cairns described under NM94SW 10. When it fell, it was re-erected on its present site (Smith 1879). As it now stands, it measures 0.45 by 0.15 metres at its base and stands 2.1 metres in height. RCAHMS 1975. (4 comments)

Fincastle Farm
Fincastle Farm submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.

Fincastle Farm
Fincastle Farm submitted by Tom_Bullock

Castle Farm standing stone
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by Megalithicmatt : Taken in infrared, looking northwest.

Castle Farm Stone
Castle Farm Stone submitted by coin : And looking from the west to the east

Castle Farm Stone
Castle Farm Stone submitted by coin : Castle farm stone, looking from the east to the west

Castle Farm Stone
Castle Farm Stone submitted by coin : The stone situated by Castle Road

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm Barcaldine cairn B. The central of the three cairns, 9 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. Photo taken looking north-east towards Glen Creran.

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm Barcaldine cairn C, earlier descriptions mention a number of kerbstones but no stones visible area is grassed over with slight hollow in centre. Cairn 0.8 metres high diameter 9 metres. Across the fence you can see cairn B and to the right the gorse marks the position of cairn A.

Castle Farm standing stone
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by ericjohn7 : Castle Farm standing stone looking towards the west and the cairns in the fields below, the white arrow is pointing to the cairn where the standing stone used to be before it fell over and was moved to its present position.

Castle Farm cairns
Castle Farm cairns submitted by caradoc68 : NM 910 402, Castle farm, cairns,Barcaldine. NM94SW10. A: NM 9101 4029) ) (B: NM 9105 4029) ) Cairns (NR) (C: NM 9108 4032) ) 170 metres SE of Castle farm, Barcaldine, there are three cairns. Cairn A: is encircled by a low, stone-revetted bank, and both cairn and bank have been built on an artificial platform about 22 metres in diameter. The cairn itself is 9.8 metres in ...

Castle Farm Long Barrow
Castle Farm Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : In a strip of conifers to the south of Castle Farm, there's remains of a longbarrow in amongst the trees just to the east of the busy B3134. Looking from the roadside, I am willing to believe its still in there, as the ferns seem to suggest there is a raise in the ground level.

Castle Farm Long Barrow
Castle Farm Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : The strip of conifers viewed from the south where the remains of this longbarrow are. Looking from the roadside, I am willing to believe its still in there, as the ferns seem to suggest there is a raise in the ground level.

Castle Farm Long Barrow
Castle Farm Long Barrow submitted by TheCaptain : Looking south from the busy B3134 to the strip of trees within which the remains of Castle Farm Long Barrow are.

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