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Pastscape description:

SX 57588888. In a crest position on Fordsland Ledge at 581.0m OD is the disturbed remains of a turf-and-heather-covered cairn. It measures 12.2m by 13.9m in diameter and is 1.1m high. In a hollow in the centre are a number of large stones suggesting the possibility of a former cist or even a chamber, utilizing the natural outcrop as its base.

Surveyed at 1:10 000 on MSD. (2)

SX 5788 8889. The cairn at Fordsland Ledge remains as described by Authority 2 though the earthwork element of the site only remains to a height of 0.7m. The large stones visible in the centre of the feature are somewhat unusual and not typical of a cist-like structure. The presence of a chamber is very doubtful and it is more likely that the interior of the cairn has, at some point, been remodelled to create a small shelter.
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( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NJA 02-OCT-79

(3) Field Investigators Comments

Probert SAJ 26-JAN-2004 EH Field Investigation

RCAHMW description:

Maen Richard stands 420m above O.D. on the parish boundary between Llanfihangel Nant Bran and Merthyr Cynog. It occupies a circular hollow and appears to be of a volcanic agglomerate 1.52m high, and 0.81m by 0.45m at the base. There is a bench mark incised on its N. face.

(From An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Brecknock (Brycheiniog) – Part i: Later Prehistoric Monuments and Unenclosed Settlements to 1000 A.D. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (1997))

Colfein has a photograph:

coflein.gov.uk/images/l/DI2007_0230/

Pair of fallen quartz menhirs (“Big White Stone”) at a very high altitude of 526m. Coflein descriptions:

1. Carreg-wen Fawr is a recumbent quartz stone, 1.4m by 1.4m by 0.5m, presiding over ‘a vast featureless desert of moorland’. A second, prostrate, stone, 1.37m by 0.55m by 0.25m, also quartz, was recorded but was subsequently lost. The monument marks the boundaries of Llanwrthwl and Llanddewi Abergwesyn parishes.
(source Os495card; SN86SW3)
J.Wiles 11.04.02

2. Recumbent partly buried stone. 1.4m long. 1.14m wide. 0.50m thick. 2 small slabs under N end poss. packing stones. Another recumbent stone 1m E. 1.3m long. 0.5m wide. (SS 9) CARREG-WEN FAWR, 526 m above O.D., is a recumbent and partly buried block of quartz crowning the summit of a hill. It is 1.4 m long 1.14 m wide and 0.5 m thick and has probably fallen to the N. Two small quartz slabs, partly buried under the N. end may be packing stones or broken pieces from the main stone. Only 1 m to the E. is another recumbent quartz pillar 1.37 m long by 0.55 m wide and 0.25 m thick, probably also fallen, so there may originally have been two uprights. O.S.Card SN 86 SW 3. RCAHMW, 1995 – Draft Inventory description.

Coflein description:

A monolith, c.2.1m high, by 0.9m by 0.8m, embedded in a field bank in a valley floor situation.

Coflein description:

Remains of a stone row, measuring c. 3.2m in length. Comprises four stones aligned from North to South; three are upright or recumbent slabs, while that to the North is a large limestone boulder.
Source: Cadw scheduling description of January 2007.

Coflein also mentions the enclosure at the south end (and above) the row:

An avenue some 90m long comprising two roughly parallel but sinuous lines of small stones leading NNE from the foot of a natural scarp to the top of a steep-sided hollow leading down the cliff. A short distance to the S is a roughly rectangular enclosure bounded by walls of large limestone blocks. Its relation to the avenue is uncertain. The S side has been disturbed by ancient cultivation.

Coflein description:

A stony mound 8.5m in diameter and 0.5m high, 1.4m high including the more modern pile on top of it.
On the NE an arc of small limestone boulders appears to be the remains of a kerb, while on the W boulders half buried beneath the modern cairn may have formed part of an inner ring.

Coflein suggests that the well has been “claimed” as pre-Christian and to have curative powers:

St. Mary’s Well is located at the bottom of a flight of concrete steps leading from the churchyard of St. Mary’s Church (NPRN 408480) to the river Banwy below, but almost certainly pre-dates the church; it has even been claimed to have had pre-Christian origins. The well has long been believed to have had curative powers, and was restored with funds from the Prince of Wales Trust in 1990, and set within an enclosed garden.

Further source material needed though.

Coflein description of this site, shown on the OS 1/25000 as “fort”:

A roughly oval enclosure, about 56m ENE-WSW by 38m, defined by a bank and ditch cutting off a south-west projecting spur, and by steep natural slopes.

Coflein description of hillfort/defended enclosure:

A subrectangular enclosure, c.113m by 80m, defined by scarps fronted by a possible ditch above steep natural slopes to the NW, elsewhere by two fragmentry lines of ramparts and ditches.

Coflein suggests that the “cairn” marked on the OS map is a more modern addition to an earlier barrow:

The cairn is located on the east facing slope, just beneath the top of Disgwylfa. The circular cairn is constructed of small easily-portable stones forming a dense pile and measures 4m diameter and 1m high. The cairn sits within an area of turfed over stones about 8 metres across, the north side of which is preserved as a bank 0.5 metres high and 4 metres long. It seems therefore that the cairn has been constructed in recent times out of an older monument, probably a barrow. The ground cover was heather at the time of survey.
N.A. Vaughan, ArchaeoPhysica Ltd, 30/08/2007

Coflein description of stone circle and associated standing stone:

Crugian Bach stone circle contains 18 visible, small upright stones and measures 22m in diameter. Situated on a gently rounded plateau, the stones are set at intervals of 2-3 meters, although there are some larger gaps of up to 5 meters. The standing stone, measuring 1 meter in length, is set some 40m NNE of the circle.

Pastscape description of this large barrow, surrounded by multiple ditches, with a Roman camp built around it:

The interiors of the Brompton Roman Camps (SO 29 SW 7 and SO 29 SW25) slope very gently to the E. A noteworthy feature in the NW quadrant of camp 1 is the large barrow, known locally as The Rossett.

Its mound, contained within three concentric ditches, is now subcircular and has apparently been disturbed in its S half; it is gradually being levelled by ploughing, but still survives to a height of 1.2 m. If, as is likely, the barrow predates the camp, its presence will have interfered with the standard arrangements of the internal layout of the camp.

The outer ditches of the barrow are visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs, while the central mound is discernible as an earthwork. The barrow has been mapped by RCHME’s Marches Uplands Mapping Project.

Coflein description indicates very long period of occupation of the site:

Ffridd Faldwyn is a complex multi-vallate enclosure, approximately 503m by 254m overall. Excavations between 1937 and 1939 indicated Neolithic occupation preceeding the four phases of the Iron Age defended enclosure.

The defences are still visible, though partially covered in woodland, and in the interior slight traces of hut platforms are discernable.

Coflein description:

A subrectangular enclosure, c.124m by 174m, occupying the end of a hill spur, defined by scarped natural slopes to the SE and NE, with three lines of scarps on the NW, approach facade. The innermost scarp retains the form of an inturned entrance.

Coflein description of this probably prehistoric dyke:

A ditch, running north northwest- south southeast, flanked by a bank on its eastern side. When recorded in August 2007 the bank was 4m wide and 1m high and the ditch was up to 4m wide and 1.2m deep. However, the ditch profile had obviously been recut relatively recently and the material cast on top of the bank, and also on to the west side creating a shallow bank. A trackway ran through the feature further damaging it. A description in the NMR archive also described the ditch running to the west at its southern end but this was not seen.

There are some pictures on the Coflein website:

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306133/images/SHEPHERD%27S+WELL+DYKE/

Coflein description:

Remains of a fort on a precipitous rocky peak.

Up to four discontinuous lines of walling, joining sections of crag, define an irregular enclosure, c.130m N-S by 70m overall, inner enclosure being c.50m N-S by 30m.

Small promontory hillfort, covered in trees. Coflein description:

A sub-oval enclosure, c.74m E-W by 39m, occupying the W end of a sharp E-W ridge, cut off by a ditch to the E, elsewhere defined by scarps, with a possible W entrance.

This much-reduced circular feature has been considered as a possible henge. Certainly the ditch is internal to the bank. Coflein description:

A sub-oval enclosure, 132m N-S by 116m, defined originally by a bank and ditch, bisected by an E-W modern road and best preserved to the N.

CPAT website mentions eight possible henges in Montgomeryshire. This one is referred to as being at Four Crosses:

cpat.org.uk/projects/longer/pfr/pfrmont/pfrmon.htm

A naturally recumbent boulder, almost 3m long and incised with a (post-)medieval cross. Marks the boundaries of Zennor, Morvah, Madron and Gulval.

Added in view of proximity to many megalithic sites (and obviously “already there” judging by its attribution as a natural boulder). The fact that four parishes chose it as the point where their boundaries meet is certainly suggestive of longer-standing recognition of the stone in the locality.

Something to look out for on the way up to Nine Maidens anyway.

Description from the Inventory to Glyn Daniel’s “The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales” (1950 Cambridge University Press) p240:

A round barrow 25ft in diameter with a depression in the centre revealing what is either a large cist or (more probably) a ruined entrance grave of Scilly type: the chamber is roofed with a megalith 4ft 6in by 4ft. (See J.T. Blight, AC, 1867, p.334.)

Pastscape info on cairns:

On Peninnis Head at approximately 34.0m OD are four heather covered cairns.

A: SV 91030957. A cairn of small stones 8.0m in diameter and 0.6m high on a north west slope. It is in an area of clitter, partly grasscovered, and more evident when viewed from the lower north west side.

B: SV 91010947. Diameter 10.5m and 0.6m high, disturbed by desultory small diggings.

C: SV 91020948. The best preserved in the group, 12.5m in diameter and 1.1m high. It incorporates one naturally sited boulder and at least two other large stones, all protruding to give the impression ofan inner wall or kerb. One upright slab exposed in the south west quadrant may be part of this or possibly the end of an off centre cist, oriented north east/south west. There is no kerb.

D: SV 91160948. A small mound, 6.0m in diameter and 0.4m high with no visible ditch.

E: A quarry pit and not a barrow or the site of one.

Surveyed at 1:2500 on PFD.

Formerly there were four barrows, but the golf course has reduced these:

‘A’ SW 66292024 10.0 metres in diameter, up to 1.0 metre high.

‘B’ 13.0 metres in diameter, up to 1.0 metre high, mutilated top.

‘C’ SW 66262019 Levelled, now under a golf tee. Badly mutilated, approximately 14.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.3 metres high.

Published survey 1:2500 Revised.

Very reduced clifftop barrow. Pastscape information suggests urns were found, but does not give a source for the quote:

The mound is most probably the barrow at SW 65352110 which is 26.0 m in diameter and 0.8 m high.

It is conjectural that this is the “almost levelled tumulus” where the urns were found in 1898.

Destroyed (1879) cliff castle. Info from Pastscape:

Borlase claims there were traces of a cliff castle at Cape Cornwall the defences of which had been partly effaced by agricultural improvements. There works disturbed a cairn in which a large urn was found and which is said to have been re-interred in the ditch of the cliff castle. Part of this ditch was cleared by Borlase and on the bottom, at a depth of 8 ft. pottery, flints and charcoal were found, also a small covered cist which was empty.

No certain traces of the promontory fort could be seen but across the lowest and narrowest portion of the neck joining it to the mainland there is a very vague and unsurveyable ridge visible in the pasture field. It is very ploughed down and may be natural but its position agrees with Borlase’s description and is an obvious site for defending the promontory. The ridge best viewed from the north, extends from SW 3522 3179 to SW 3525 3184. A 25” survey has been made.

Description from Herefordshire SMR:

At edge of forestry plantation, nr boundary with Michaelchurch. Top surface W cut into it. Not used as boundary stone, or previously recorded. Well cut standing stone, 1.2m above ground level, slight lean to W. In cross section 0.35 x 0.25m. Bench mark cut into E side at top. W on top. No other features to date, but has weathered appearance.

Destroyed/moved standing stone known as Gold Post. According to Pastscape “moved from its original position before 1930, according to a local farmer”.

Close to the Mynydd Brith stone – the same one?

Round barrow with cist, not shown on OS 1/25000. Info from Pastscape:

Buried remains of a barrow, incorporating a burial chamber, or cist, situated at the top of the south west facing Cefn Ridge, west of the Cefn Track. Cist includes a large stone slab laid flat with 2 edges protruding from the ground for 1.2m. Beneath it are several smaller stones embedded in the soil. The surrounding area is hummocky, suggesting the presence of further stones, possibly disturbed from their original positions by ploughing or early investigation of the site. An earthen mound would have originally covered the cist but is no longer visible, although in 1950 a slight mound was recorded. Scheduled

Possible site of destroyed chambered tomb (long barrow?) in an area rich with Neolithic tombs and barrows. Info from Pastscape:

A number of stones on the south side of the road at the top of the hill above Archenfield (SO 262423) may be the remains of a chamber tomb.

At least three large stones lie embedded in turf on the roadside verge. They do not have the appearance of natural disposition. The situation is suitable for a cairn but whether they represent a burial chamber or not is open to question.

Coflein description of this wonderfully situated fort:

Twn-y-Gaer Camp is a strongly embanked and ditched enclosure occupying the summit of an isolated and dramatic hill. It is an elongated oval in plan, roughly 226m by 84m, defined by a rampart with a ditch and counterscarp bank, except on the south where the hillslopes are at their steepest. There is a single inturned east-facing entrance. The interior is divided by two lines of east-facing ramparts and ditches, each with a central entrance.

Excavation, from 1965, showed that the more easterly subdivision was the eastern front of the earliest enclosure. This enclosed an area of roughly 0.7ha. A second phase saw the enclosure expanded to its full extent, enclosing an area of about 1.54ha. In the final phase the enclosure was reduced to the part west of the western, stone-revetted, subdivision, an area of roughly 0.4ha.

Finds included some pottery, including salt containers, iron and copper alloy objects, including brooches, glass beads, querns and iron working debris. The occupation producing this material had ended by the Roman period.

Source: Probert 1976 ‘Twyn-y-Gaer: an interim assessment’, in Wesh Antiquity (eds. Boon and Lewis), 105-19.

The OS 1/25000 shows a linear group of four barrows, running SW-NE along the ridge of the Down. Pastscape indicates that there were six barrows originally. Only the NE barrow remains readily visible, due to ploughing and cultivation.

Pastscape descriptions:

SU08606540: 2 Bronze Age bowl barrows forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery containing 6 barrows in all running south west to north east across Allington Down. Both mounds are situated on an ancient boundary which is also the boundary between 2 farms. The north barrow has been reduced by cultivation and is 13 metres diameter and 0.2 metres high. The southern barrow has also been reduced and is only visible as a slight stony spread 12 metres diameter. An early track, now a public right of way, runs along the western side of the current field boundary which crosses the site. Scheduled.

SU 09176598: Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery containing 6 barrows on Allington Down. The mound is 13 metres diameter and 0.2 metres high. It is surrounded by a quarry ditch about 2.5 metres wide which now survives as a buried feature. In about 1900 2 sherds of Middle Bronze Age pottery and part of a human femur were found on the surface of the mound. The location of this barrow was originally plotted at SU 0916 6598 by the Ordnance Survey. Scheduled.

SU 09376619: Bronze Age bowl barrow forming part of a linear round barrow cemetery represented by 6 remaining barrows on Allington Down. The mound is 20 metres in diameter and 1 metre high. Middle and Late Bronze Age pottery sherds with burnt bone fragments have been found within the mound. Scheduled.

Round barrow adjacent to the gallops on Horton Down. Pastscape indicates a diameter of 18m, but ploughed down to a height of 0.5m, with a surrounding ditch.

Excavated by J. Thurnam in 1850s, revealing a primary cremation.

Large sections of IA/R-B earthworks on the slopes of Tan Hill. Lengthy sections are visible at the western end. Pastscape brief description:

Probable prehistoric linear earthwork, comprising a bank and ditch, on Tan Hill. Iron Age and Romano-British pottery has been recovered from the ditch, as has an undated skeleton. The earthwork is twice crossed by the Wansdyke.

More here: pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=216059

A group of three bowl barrows and a disc barrow, at the western end of Tan Hill. Pastscape brief description:

Group of three Bronze Age bowl barrows and a disc barrow located to the west of Tan Hill, listed by Grinsell as Bishops Cannings 46, 47, 48 and 94 respectively. No. 46, excavated by Thurnam in the mid-19th century, contained a cremation, possibly primary, with shale beads and pendant plus a faience bead. 47 and 48 were both also examined by Thurnam, who found that they had been previously excavated. However, a flint scraper was found in one of them. The disc barrow appears not to have been excavated. All are extant as damaged earthworks.

Further info here:

pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=215995

Pastscape description of the long barrow:

Neolithic long barrow (Grinsell’s Bishops Cannings 65) on Easton Down, excavated by Thurnam in the 1860s, who found two adult and two child inhumations. The barrow survives as a mound 46 metres long and a maximum of 45 metres wide, standing up to 3.6 metres high, with flanking side ditches still visible. Small scale excavation in 1991 was aimed primarily at investigating the environmental sequence. As well as sectioning both ditches and part of the mound, a series of test pits were dug in the vicinity. Artefacts were few, although a miniature Early Bronze Age vessel and some possible Iron Age sherds were found high in the ditch silts. Radiocarbon dates suggest a relatively late construction date for the barrow, probably in the late 4th millennium BC.

Two round barrows on the part of Overton Down south of the Herepath. Descriptions from Pastscape:

Northern barrow (SU13007080)

A badly mutilated round barrow, 17 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high, with a central mutilation which extends down to the ground surface. No trace of a surrounding ditch. The barrow mound is still extant as an earthwork.

Southern barrow (SU13057051)

A mound probably a barrow 10m diameter and 0.6m high, containing many sarsens. The central disturbance may be accounted for by the trig station which formerly stood at or near
this point.

Two round barrows next to the gallops at the southeast of Fyfield Down. Pastscape descriptions as follows:

Bronze Age bowl barrow Fyfield 2 and bell or bowl barrow Fyfield 1, the latter still extant as a mound but the former only as a cropmark ring ditch.

A. SU 14287064; This barrow is 19m in diameter and 1.6m high. No trace of a berm or ditch remains, and it looks more like a bowl barrow than a bell barrow.

B. SU 14267063; An indistinct bowl barrow in rough grassland, 15m diameter and 0.5m high. Surveyed at 1:2500.

Intriguing alignment of stones, “sunk into a bog” according to Coflein!

Alignment of seven standing stones; that known as Cerrig-yr-helfa has sunk into a bog.

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/303380/details/CERRIG-YR-HELFA%3B+BRYN+BRAS+STONES%2C+MYNYDD+DYFNANT/

Coflein description of this wooded site, shown on the OS 1/25000 as “fort”:

A roughly D-shaped enclosure, c.48m NE-SW by 58m, with its straight, SE side resting on steep natural slopes, elsewhere defined by up to four lines of banks and ditches. There is a NE facing entrance with possible outworks beyond

A very large Bronze Age hoard was found in 1862 just to the south of this site, at SJ24761114 (guesstimate). The hoard included 120 pieces of metalwork, including palstaves, socketed axes, swords, spearheads, ferrules and chapes.

Further details and source material on Coflein:

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/407377/details/GUILSFIELD+HOARD/

Coflein description for this small defended enclosure:

A roughly oval enclosure, about 96m east-west by 58m, set upon the western end of a low ridge, defined by scarps, with a ditch and counterscarp, having a possible north-west facing entrance.

Coflein description for this enclosure, shown on the OS 1/25000 as “fort”:

A sub-pentagonal enclosure, c.80m SW-NE by 64m, set upon the highest point of Bryncyn-felin Hill, having steep slopes on the N and S, defined by scarps and terraces.

Coflein description:

A roughly oval enclosure, c.190m NE-SW by 110m, comprehending the summit of Foel Hill, defined by scarps representing a single bank and ditch, with traces of a E facing entrance.
The W part of the interior appears to have been scarped/terraced.

APs appear to show the E end of an inner enclosure, c.100m NE-SW by 50m, otherwise represented by terracing in W part of interior.

Coflein has this down as decidedly Iron Age, but as a defended enclosure rather than anything cursus-y. It was excavated in the early 80s, confiming its prehistoric date (although Coflein doesn’t detail any finds).

A sub-rectangular enclosure, c.75m by 75m, biscected by a N-S hedgeline, best preserved to the W. Defined by up to five lines of scarps or banks, with a hollow-way leading to the SW facing entrance.

Excavation, 1980-2, on the half of the enclosure demonstrated a complex sequence of occupation from the 3rd C. BC to the m.4th C. AD.

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/306992/details/COLLFRYN%2C+ENCLOSURE/

Coflein description of the site, marked on the OS 1/25000 as “fort”:

A roughly pentagonal enclosure, c.84m N-S by 74m, set upon the summit of Bryn Mawr, defined by two lines of scarps, thought to represent a degraded rampart and ditch. There is a possible W-facing entrance.

Description of this fort from Pastscape:

The hillfort on Blodwell Rock, an outwork of the fort to the south (SJ 22 NE 6),consists of a single bank and ditch on a steepish slope, running parallel to the western scarp of the hill for 300 yards. The ends of the vallum are turned at right angles to meet the scarp and at the north the defences are doubled and are covered by an additional outwork. The ditch is on the east of the bank, not on the west as would be expected if it were part of Offa’s Dyke, which in fact ends 600 yards to the north. The line of the Dyke in this sector is the western cliff of the Llanymynech, Blodwell and Crickheath Hills, utilising the earlier earthworks where they exist.

The hillfort encloses an area of 6.2 acres.

The enclosure measures internally, 310.0m by 55.0m, and is bounded on the lower, S-E side by an earth and stone bank, up to 10.0m in width, and in height, 0.3m internally and up to 3.0m externally. As described by Fox, the bank turns at the ends of the work to terminate upon the scarp. The ditch, where extant, is reduced to a terrace 4.0m wide, with an outward -facing scarp, 4.0m wide, 2.0m high. The entrance through the N-E corner is covered by a bank on the S, and additional defence on the weak, N-E side across the ridge-top is provided by an outer bank, 10.0m wide and in height, 1.2m externally, 1.5m internally.

The site is densely overgrown.

Unmarked on the OS 1/25000 and recorded by Coflein as a platform cairn:

Remains of a cairn, roughly circular on plan, measuring about 9m in diameter and up to 0.5m in height. The cairn was possibly originally a platform cairn – the cairn displays no evidence of original ‘bulk’, while elements of a level surface are visible. When visited in September 2007 as part of the Uplands Survey, the cairn was as described previously. It was turf covered and lay on the ridge of Mynydd Bychan. The grid reference given in the scheduling description has been amended, as the grid reference given was for a more recent marker cairn, approximately 160m to the west southwest.

Possible prehistoric cairn on the summit of Dartmoor’s (and southern England’s*) highest mountain. Pastscape description:

A revetted mound adjoins the south side of one of the granite outcrops at High Willhays. Measuring 19m east to west by 18m overall it stands around 0.8m high. The sides of the mound are formed by coursed granite slabs and boulders and the top is largely flat though a hollow has formed in the southern half. This feature must be regarded as a tor cairn though its construction is somewhat uncharacteristic of similar features. There is no evidence to suggest the presence of a cist or a more conventional kerb.

*Arguably! See Gladman’s comments on pic.

Two cairns on the summit of Dartmoor’s second highest top. Pastscape descriptions:

SX 57959020. A large gutted cairn 25.0m by 27.0m in diameter and 0.8m in height. The central excavation is approximately 12.0m across
and extends to 0.5m below the natural ground level. In the base of the hollow and on its south side are three partly buried slabs each about 1.7m long, 0.2m thick and more than 0.5m wide, which look like the displaced remains of a former cist.

SX 58049016. On the top of the flat outcrop of Yes Tor and piled against the west side is an amorphous mass of stones representing a ruined cairn. The patch of stones on the top is more or less 14.0m across and 0.3 m high and the piling against the outcrop is 2.3m high. It is possible that this has resulted from bulldozing the cairn over the side of the outcrop but the stones appear quite stable and compacted.

Late Bronze Age cross-dyke, next to the natural feature known as the Devil’s Mouth. Pastscape description:

A small typical LBA cross-ridge dyke situated upon a saddle of a ridge, the ends resting upon precipitous slopes, extends for 130.0m from SO 43999432 to SO 43959419. It comprises a stone and earth, heather-covered bank up to 6.0m in width and 1.5m in height with side ditches; that to the W being the larger, 4.0 to 6.0m. in width, and up to 0.7m in depth; that to the E., 2.0 to 3.0m. in width and up to 0.3m in depth.

The feature has been destroyed for 35.0m for a roadway, footpath and car-parking space, and to the N, only the bank remains extant for a further 250.m.

Two round barrows, near the natural spring known as the Boiling Well. Pastscape descriptions:

Western barrow (SO42189463):

Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 100m north-east of Boiling Well. Scheduled (RSM). The surrounding ditch has become infilled but survives as a surface feature some 32m wide.

Eastern barrow (SO42619449):

Bowl barrow on The Long Mynd, 500m east-south-east of Boiling Well. Scheduled (RSM). The central area of the mound is hollowed to a depth of 0.4m as a result of excavation. The surrounding ditch has been destroyed around the south-west side by a roadway but survives as a buried feature some 1.5m wide around the remainder of the barrow.