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New House, cairn

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 3422
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Churchstoke
Unitary authority : Powys
NGR : SO3007197338
Site Type (preferred type first) : UNKNOWN CLEARANCE CAIRN / NEOLITHIC LONG BARROW
Status : scheduled monument

Summary :
Cairn believed to have been the result of modern clearance over a natural elongated bedrock outcrop.

Description :
Cairn (Chitty, IF, 1949). Poss natural outcrop (OS, 1954).

An oval mound, orientated south-west to north-east and measuring 30m by 18m. The proximal end rises 0.3m above the surrounding field surface and faces towards the south-west. This is unusual for long barrows that normally have their proximal ends to the east. Possible kerb stones around its north-east perimeter. A modern clearance cairn occupies the proximal end (SW) (Gibson, A, 1997, 62).

Long mound orientated E-W on false crest. Proximal end unusually at W. 40cm high at proximal end trailing to nothing at E. Widely-spaced earth-fast boulders on the N side may be stores/formal edging to the mound, loose stone at proximal end may be clearance and/or disturbance (CPAT 1997).

Scheduled 31/10/2002 (Cadw 2002).

Morphology as yet poorly understood, might possibly cover a stone chamber (Gibson, A M, 2002, pp5).

The subject of topographical survey by CPAT and Bradford University and excavation by Bradford University in May 2012, which determined that the site was a natural outcrop with a small stone quarry on one side. (Jones, N, pers. comm, 2012).

Sources :
Cadw , 2001 , Cadw Field Monument Wardens Report - Mg285(POW)
Cadw , 2002 , Scheduling map - Mg285(POW)
Cadw , 2002 , Scheduling map - Mg285(POW)
Chitty, L F , 1949 , Annotated record map
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1997 , Site visit record - PRN 3422 ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1998 , Site visit record - PRN3422
Gibson, A , 1997 , Hindwell Neolithic Palisaded Enclosure, Walton , Archaeology in Wales : 37 : 62
Gibson, A , 1998 , New House, Churchstoke , Archaeology in Wales : 38 : 107-9
Gibson, A , 2000 , Survey and Excavation at a Newly Discovered Long Barrow at Lower Luggy, Berriew, Powys , Studia Celtica : 34 : 1-16
Gibson, A , 2012 , Excavation at the Newhouse Long Barrow and Cairn, Lan Fawr, Churchstoke, Powys, Wales. ( © )
Gibson, A. M , 1998 , Prehistoric Funerary & Ritual Sites: Upper Severn Valley ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Gibson, A. M , 2002 , Prehistoric funerary and ritual sites in the Upper Severn Valley , The Montgomeryshire Collections : 90 : 1-40 ( © Gibson, A. M)
Jones, N W, Owen, W J & Gibson, A M , 2004 , Prehistoric Funerary & Ritual Sites - Montgomeryshire. Project Report ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Kennedy, A E , 2001 , Tir Gofal Management Plan: Heritage Management Information (HE1). Mellington Farm, Churchstoke - E/08/1841
Ordnance Survey , 1954 , OS record card SO39NW 16
Puntorno, M , 2011 , A Multimethodological Geophysical Survey of New House Long Borrow ( © University of Bradford)

Events :
72242 : New House long barrow, topographical survey 1997 (year : 1997)
120565 : New House Long Barrow (year : 2011)
72410 : Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments, Upper Severn Valley, assessment project 1997-98 (year : 1997-98)
59040 : Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments, Upper Severn Valley, desktop study 1997-98 (year : 1997-98)
59041 : Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments, Upper Severn Valley, field survey project 1997-98 (year : 1997-98)
123720 : New House long barrow, topographical survey 2012 (year : 2012)
123722 : New House long barrow, excavation, 2012 (year : 2012)
220232 : Prehistoric Funerary and Ritual Monuments, Montgomeryshire, assessment project 2003-2004 (year : 2003-2004)

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Compiled date : 31-12-1981


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