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Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton)
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Caer Caradoc (Church Stretton) submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. Caer Caradoc, taken from a northwest angle on a lovely summer's morning. Indeed, this offers some formidable defense. If this were the place of Caratacus' last stand against the Romans, this would have indeed been something difficult to conquer, even by Roman standards. However, there is no evidence to confirm this suggestion.
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The Stiperstones
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
The Stiperstones submitted by TimPrevett on 28th Jun 2004. A cairn just north east of Manstone Rock.
"The Stiperstones" is the name for a hill on the far west reaches of Shropshire, well into The Welsh Marches, overlooking the Welsh border. It is the second highest hill in Shropshire, affording superb views in all directions, and having several bronze age cairns along its ridge.
The cairns themselves, excepting the largest, can be quite hard to locate. At a very reductionist level, they are basically piles of stone amidst a whole ridge of piles of...
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Wildmoor Bowl Barrow
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Nov 2013
Wildmoor Bowl Barrow submitted by TheWhiteRider on 26th Jun 2006. Wildmoor Bowl Barrow.
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The Lawley (Summit)
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
The Lawley (Summit) submitted by TheWhiteRider on 12th Jun 2006. The summit of The Lawley.
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The Lawley (Northern)
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
The Lawley (Northern) submitted by TheWhiteRider on 12th Jun 2006. Cross Ridge Dyke and ditch at SW end, bisected by original causeway and entrance.
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Caer Caradoc Round Barrow
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Caer Caradoc Round Barrow submitted by TheWhiteRider on 12th Jun 2006. Caer Caradoc Round Barrow with The Lawley and Hoar Ridge in the distance.
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Hope Bowdler Hill
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Hope Bowdler Hill submitted by TheWhiteRider on 29th May 2006. Bronze Age Cairn on Hope Bowdler Hill.
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Shooting Box Disc Barrow
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Nov 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Shooting Box Disc Barrow submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2004. The best, most obvious barrow remaining on The Long Mynd, and the sole known example of a disc barrow in Shropshire.
It covers a circular area some 170 feet in diameter, with an outer raised heather-covered ring circa 15 feet wide, and the inner green mound 60 feet across and up to 8 feet high.
It is so named due a grouse shooting box that was on its northern side until 1992; it now leaves a large depression in the green mound, with a similar depression on the east side, suggesting another...
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Log Text: Been here so many times. Grew up in Stretton and still go back there walking over the Long Mynd very often. Always stop to have a sit and a coffee whenever I go past it.
The hut got removed due to drug addicts using it. Or so everybody in Stretton says.
You can park right next to the barrow however the road up from Church Stretton is up the Burway which is a terrifying road (I've seen 3 cars come off the Burway and roll down into Cardingmill Valley). The other way to park next to it is to come up the other side of the Mynd, near Ratlinghope, up past the Bridges pub.
Otherwise, you can come up on the other road (you can get to the road from Leebotwood, join it from the road above Inwood, or you can get to it from the Bridges pub too) and park by Duckley Nap. It's then about 10 to 15 minutes walk to the Shooting Box. One of the pluses of parking at Duckley Nap is that it's by the Robin Hood's Butts barrows. Also, on the path from there to the Shooting Box you will walk past another round barrow (I believe it's Long Mynd C as listed on megalithic.)
Alternatively, in the summer you can catch the shuttle bus up to the Shooting Box. Or if you want a really good walk, you can walk to it from Stretton.
Shooting Box Disc Barrow
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Shooting Box Disc Barrow submitted by TimPrevett on 25th Apr 2004. The best, most obvious barrow remaining on The Long Mynd, and the sole known example of a disc barrow in Shropshire.
It covers a circular area some 170 feet in diameter, with an outer raised heather-covered ring circa 15 feet wide, and the inner green mound 60 feet across and up to 8 feet high.
It is so named due a grouse shooting box that was on its northern side until 1992; it now leaves a large depression in the green mound, with a similar depression on the east side, suggesting another...
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