Hankinson, R. (2021). Brompton Mill House, Pentreheyling, Shropshire: Archaeological Watching Brief. Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. https://doi.org/10.5284/1103733. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Brompton Mill House, Pentreheyling, Shropshire: Archaeological Watching Brief
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Abstract:		 The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust carried out an enhanced watching brief during groundworks for an extension to Brompton Mill House, Pentreheyling in Shropshire in March and April 2021, on behalf of the owner. The development bordered the area of the scheduled monument known as the ‘Motte and bailey castle and line of Offa's Dyke adjacent to Brompton Mill’ (No 1013496), which was designated to protect the line of a section of the early medieval linear earthwork known as Offa’s Dyke and the medieval motte and bailey castle at Brompton, which is thought to have been constructed on the line of the dyke. The groundworks involved the creation of a section through the deposits to the north-north-west of the house, where it was thought that evidence relating to conjunction between the motte and bailey and Offa’s Dyke might be revealed. The majority of the machining only affected natural deposits of glacio-fluvial origin, which comprised a varied sequence of gravels and sandy silts. Three features which probably represent gullies or ditches were identified within the section that was produced, with context (11) likely to represent the upper part of the motte ditch, though its fill was no doubt of 19th-century or later date, as indicated by the material it contained. This most probably followed the remodelling of the water system to serve the current mill. Of greater significance was the probable ditch/gully (13), which just fell within the area examined. The most likely interpretation of the feature is that it was the leat depicted serving an earlier mill on an 18th-century map. While it can be suggested from cartographic sources that this might have followed the course of the ditch of Offa’s Dyke, the fill within it no doubt formed at a later date and is also unlikely to be contemporary with the ditch of the motte.
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Author:		 R Hankinson
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Publisher:		 Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust
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Year of Publication:		 2021
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District: Shropshire
Parish: Chirbury with Brompton
County: Shropshire
Country: England
Grid Reference: 325079, 293139 (Easting, Northing)
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WATCHING BRIEF (Event)
DITCH (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL DITCH (Tag)
LEAT (Monument Type England)
POST MEDIEVAL LEAT (Tag)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)
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OASIS Id: clwydpow3-508584
Report id: 1785
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Created Date:		 10 Mar 2023