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Brinklow Crescent, LONDON, SE18 3BS

The slopes of Shooters Hill give wonderful views across London. This view looks across Plum Lane to the top of Brinklow Crescent.

Passing, on the left, railings surrounding Shrewsbury Barrow. The turn on the left is Brinklow Crescent.

This is a most unlikely setting for a Bronze Age tumulus - amidst suburban roads on the side of Shooters Hill. This view is looking from Plum Lane and the road on the right is Brinklow Crescent. Fortunately there is a notice explaining that this is an ancient tumulus, otherwise the passer by would assume it is just another small piece of remnant grassland lost in suburbia.

Tumulus according to this sign, but round barrow according to https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1430983 . The latter is a more specific term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus .

Shrewsbury Barrow is "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". See also Image], Image] and Image

Seen from the stretch of Plum Lane seen in Image Shrewsbury Barrow is "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". The house beyond is on Brinklow Crescent.