Tumulus near Rushall Castle

This scheduled monument is situated in the garden of Rushall Hall, is oval in shape, and measures about 2.2 metres in height, 16 metres in diameter E-W, and 13.5 metres N-S. Constructed in the Bronze Age as a burial mound, it has subsequently been reused during the Saxon/ Early Medieval period, with a secondary burial in the side nearest the hall. There is no visible ditch. However, an engraving from the Nineteenth Century shows the mound lower and more bowl-shaped than the present steep sided conical profile.

Excavations through the centre of the barrow in the 1950's to a depth of three ft revealed fragments of eighteenth century clay pipe, fragments of eighteenth century black glazed pottery, and indeterminate fragments of bone. These excavations can still be identified. Later excavations on the top of the tumulus for planting trees revealed fragments of human bone and several Saxon coins.