Mayplace Lane, Shrewsbury Park
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Mayplace Lane, Shrewsbury Park
Image: © Derek Harper Taken: 17 Apr 2019
A back lane between Eglinton Hill and Brinklow Crescent. On the right is an area containing Shrewsbury Barrow, "a substantial earthen mound which survives reasonably well; ... highly representative of the Bronze Age period ... round barrows, particularly surviving in this good a state of preservation, are very rare in London" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430983 . "the last surviving of a group of six. Three of them were known to have formed a linear group, with the remaining two possibly forming or contributing to a second group. The barrows would have been located at the 'false horizon' position where they could be seen silhouetted against the sky from the foot of the hill ... in the mid C19 the barrow stood within the grounds of the mid-C19 Tower House, and it is illustrated with a ring of trees – only some of which remain". Seen across Plum Lane.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.474483
Longitude
0.07031