MONUMENT NO. 106514

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The earthwork and buried remains of a motte castle situated circa 90 metres south of Hindwell Brook. The remains include an earthern motte mound of circular form, circa 40 metres in diameter at the base and rising circa 1.5 metres to a flat top of circa 20 metres in diameter. The castle was abandoned by the 14th century. Scheduled.

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(SO34786344) Castle Mound. (1)

A mound, unclassified by RCHM, but scheduled as a round barrow (3), on the S side of Hindwell Brook, is circular and about 40 yds in diameter. It rises, at most, some 8 ft above the surrounding dry ditch, which has an average depth of 6 3/4 ft. (2-3)

A "tumulus row, called Bannetts", at Combe (4).

Rees shows the symbol for a "small fortress, fortified manor house or castle site abandoned by the 14th century" at Combe. (5)

SO34776344: This mound is now very mutilated and rises only 1.6m above the ditch, which is now 1.1m deep. It has a diameter of 20.0m across its flat top, and from its position alongside the Hindwell Brook in the middle of the Lugg valley it is perhaps a much denuded motte.

Resurveyed at 1:2500. (6)

SO 348635. Motte, very low. (7)

SO 348635. Tumulus 250 yds (230 m) N.E. of Combe House. Scheduled monument. (8)

Additional references. (9)

Medieval motte and bailey mapped from good quality air photographs.

The following features were identified:-

Probable Medieval motte, seen as earthworks. Morphological description: one large (50m), round mound with encircling ditch or moat, centred at SO 3477 6344. A linear ditched feature abuts the moat on its north-west side and may be the remnants of an outer bailey. (Morph No. MU.8.1.1-2)

This description is based on data from the RCHME MORPH2 database. (10)

Additional references. (11-12)

The castle probably existed in the 12th century, and probably suffered the same fate as Presteigne Castle, which was sacked by the Welsh at Christmas 1262 and never rebuilt. The motte is at most 5 feet high and 50 feet across, and there is evidence of a ditch 15 feet wide and 3 feet deep. To the west is the earthwork remains of a rectangular bailey visible as a low bank and ditch bisecting a field. It undoubtedly foremly had wet defences. (13)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1973

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1934 An inventory of the historical monuments in Herefordshire. Volume III: north-west

Page(s)33

( 3) Ministry of Public Building and Works 1965 Ancient monuments in England and Wales : a list prepared by the Ministry of Public Building and Works, corrected to 31st December 1963

Page(s)63

( 4) Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club : transactions

(R H George). 1914 Page(s)59

( 5) General reference

Rees W. 1932. Map of South Wales in the 14th Century

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

02/06/1972

(7) 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

Page(s)204

(8) English Heritage 1987 County list of Scheduled Ancient Monuments : December 1987

Hereford and Worcester

(9) edited by William Page, F.S.A. 1908 The Victoria history of the county of Hertfordshire, volume two

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)225

(10) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment

Carolyn Dyer/20-JUL-1993/RCHME: Marches Upland NMP

(11) Scheduled Monument Notification

02/11/1995

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

Monuments in the landscape1 (1994) - vol.2 Page(s)83

(13) Paul Martin Remfry 1999 Nine castles of Burford Barony, 1048 to 1308

Page(s)22-3

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