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<< Our Photo Pages >> Brinklow Tumulus - Artificial Mound in England in Warwickshire

Submitted by Iain_P on Wednesday, 12 July 2017  Page Views: 7366

Multi-periodSite Name: Brinklow Tumulus Alternative Name: The Tump
Country: England County: Warwickshire Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Brinklow
Map Ref: SP43877957
Latitude: 52.412379N  Longitude: 1.356465W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
4 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
5

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Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : A general view of this huge mound (Vote or comment on this photo)
Norman Motte and bailey castle in Warwickshire, possibly on the site of an earlier burial mound. Flat-topped with a diameter of 79m at its base and 15m high. Surrounded by a 12m wide ditch.

My mother found a couple of very old postcards with photographs of the "Brinklow Tumulus" (images below) so we set off to see it.

We found the huge mound which the English Heritage site describes as the site of a Norman Motte and bailey castle. The "flat-topped motte has a diameter of 79m at its base and is 15m high. It is surrounded by a ditch, 12m wide which separates the motte from the bailey to the west."

This is clearly not an ancient burial mound, so we were rather confused. To confuse matters even more, there is a smaller mound, but still very impressive in scale, right next to the motte, which is not recognised on the official maps at the site nor on any map that we could find (image below too).

The Historic England site List Number 1011368  mentions it but gives no further detail: "In the northern part of the outer bailey is a small mound with a diameter of 10m".

Pastscape Monument No. 337579 says:
"possibly the original entrance was near the northern corner of the work where a small mound exists upon the rampart. Local tradition in Dugdale's time preserved the memory of a keep here, but no masonry has ever been found."

Presumably this is the second mound we saw, though at around 30 feet in diameter, it is certainly not small!

Further investigation reveals that the motte may have been built on a much earlier monument. This is based on speculation about the origin of the name Brinklow, and the claim that the Roman Road deviates here (and only here) to circumnavigate the mound.

The BBC Website (Domesday Reloaded) says: "Brinklow's ancient mound is thought to be older than Roman times" - Click here for link
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Pastscape describes the site as a "Medieval motte and bailey, allegedly on the site of earlier earthworks."

The Brinklow Website (http://brinklowvillage.co.uk/history/) has excerpts from “Byrnca’s Low” by Diane Lindsay, including this: The name [Brinklow] is thought to originate from two Old English elements: the personal name Brynca, and the word hlaw meaning "hill" in the sense of tumulus or burial mound. This ancient derivation implies that there was almost certainly a man-made "tump" here long before the Normans exploited the site to build their castle, clearly drawn to it by the strategic nature of the hill as a defensive sighting point, and its position on the Roman Fosse Way.
It is also known that [the Romans] preferred to leave native sacred sites intact, rather than disturb them. Brinklow Tump may well have had some significance to the ancient Coritani people, whose capital was Leicester, but who, it is thought, may well have strayed in isolated small settlements this far southwards; the exact boundaries of their lands are not known. Whether Brinklow Tump is the last resting place of a minor British chieftain, circumvented by the Romans and later owned by an Anglo-Saxon named Brynca, or whether it was indeed, the burial place of Brynca himself, we shall probably never know - to date the mound remains unexcavated.

Here's a link to the video we filmed using a drone. The smaller mound is marked with a red arrow: Click here for video.
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Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by BillBeckett : Postcard of: Tumulus, Roman Camp, Brinklow (Vote or comment on this photo)

Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : The second postcard (Vote or comment on this photo)

Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : The postcard, perhaps 100 years old (Vote or comment on this photo)

Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : At a lower elevation (Vote or comment on this photo)

Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : The mound from around 50m up

Brinklow Tumulus
Brinklow Tumulus submitted by Iain_P : The "small" mound

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Re: Brinklow Tumulus by limestonepavement on Thursday, 12 August 2021
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Although the Mounds Project found 12thC dates for the motte other features may precede this date.
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Re: Brinklow Tumulus by Anonymous on Thursday, 12 August 2021
Ian P''s video and various photos show a change of contour in the motte slope. Could this infer a pre-existing mound which formed the base of the Norman works? If any substance is to be given to long-standing belief of a prehistoric barrow (respected by Roman engineering) an archaeological exploration is overdue. Implications in view of possible proximity of Boudiccan rebellions Last Stand?
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