MONUMENT NO. 107846

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Earthwork remains of a motte and bailey. The motte is 2.5 metres high and 45 metres in diameter at the base. it is mutilated on its crest and destroyed in the south west by the construction of Castle Farm, a late 16th or early 17th century timber-framed farmhouse that has been heavily modernised. Traces of a ditch, now 0.4 metres deep remain in the north west, but the bailey to the south west implied by RCHME is apparently natural. The scale of destruction at the site means interpretaion of the castle is ambiguous, and the identification of the motte debatable; it may have been a later fortified manor site.

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(SO 40643840) Mound (NR). (1)

A slight artificial earthwork on top of a natural mound. It is about 40yds diameter at the base but has been much damaged by the erection of the house and farm buildings of Castle Farm. (2-3)

SO 40643840. A motte, some 2.5m high, 45.0m diameter at its base, mutilated on its crest and destroyed in the SW by the construction of Castle Farm. Traces of a ditch, now 0.4m deep remain in the NW, but the bailey to the SW implied by the RCHM is apparently natural. Published Survey 25" revised. (4)

Listed by Shoesmith and Cathcart King. (5-6)

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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)198-9

( 3) General reference

RCHM MSS Plan

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MHB 09-FEB-71

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

Monuments in the landscape1 (1994) - vol.2 Page(s)179

( 6) 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 Page(s)209

(7) General reference

Phillips, N. 2006. 'The Earthwork Castles of Gwent and Ergyng AD 1050-1250'. BAR

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