CUMMA TUMP

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Earthwork remains of a small Medieval motte, mapped from aerial photographs. A Motte 3.3 metres high with a flat but mutilated summit 5 metres in diameter. A large hole has been dug on the east side. The ditch, 1.5 metres deep, around the east and south sides, ends on the bank of a stream on the west side. Scheduled.

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(SO 27645135) CASTLE MOUND (NR) (1)

Tump or mound, roughly circular, about 90 ft in diameter at the base and rising 17 1/2 ft above the lowest part of the ditch. The ditch is dry, but a stream runs through it on the W side. Listed as castle (2-3)

A small motte 3.3m high with a flat but mutilated summit 5.0m in diameter. A large hole has been dug on the E side. The ditch, 1.5m deep, around the east and south sides, ends on the bank of a stream on the W side.
Published survey (1:2500) revised. (4)

SO 276514. Cumma Tump. Motte and apparently bailey, both diminutive, partly defended by a small steep gully. (5)

Additional reference. (6)

The earthwork remains of the small Medieval motte known as Cumma Tump described by the previous authorities was seen centred at SO 2764 5135. The site was seen as an earthwork and mapped from aerial photographs. (7)

Shoesmith maintains that a possible bailey is hidden in trees and undergrowth. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1964

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1931 An inventory of the historical monuments in Herefordshire. Volume I: south-west

Page(s)23 (MON 2), PLAN 29

( 3) Scheduled Monument Notification

AM's Eng Wales 1965 64 (MPBW)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DJC 05-FEB-75

(5) by David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. Volume I : Anglesey - Montgomery

1, 1983 Page(s)203

(6) edited by William Page, F.S.A. 1908 The Victoria history of the county of Hereford, volume one

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)224

(7) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF 58/710/3119-3120 02-JUN-1951

( 8) by Ron Shoesmith 1996 A guide to castles and moated sites in Herefordshire

Monuments in the landscape1 (1994) - vol.2 Page(s)70

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