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Pole Cottage
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
Pole Cottage submitted by TimPrevett on 24th Jan 2006. One of the more easy to spot barrows on The Long Mynd, just west of the Pole Cottage parking area.
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Porth-y-Rhaw
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Wales (Pembrokeshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Porth-y-Rhaw submitted by pattersa on 17th Oct 2011. View of the promontory fort at Porth-y-Rhaw from the coastal path from the east
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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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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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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 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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The Wrekin
Date Added: 24th Nov 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Shropshire)
Visited: Yes
The Wrekin submitted by TimPrevett on 2nd Jan 2005. Lookin to the North East, between the outer and inner ramparts of The Wrekin.
The path enters the inturned ramparts to the central area; the trig point and toposcope sit upon a Bronze Age Cairn, which is hardly in evidence.
Another, more slight rampart is visible to the left of the picture, before the hill becomes more rounded.
See main entry - click on the blue text to the left of the picture for more information.
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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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