ASTON TUMP

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The earthwork remains of a Moated motte mapped from aerial photographs. When field investigated in 1972 the earth and stone motte was 44 metres in diameter at the base and 22 metres in diameter on the summit. It rose 6 metres above the encircling moat. The marshy moat was 11 metres in width and from 0.5 metres deep on the south side to 1.5 metres deep on the north side. The moat was fed by a stream from the north east, leaving from the south west. Scheduled.

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(SO 46187190) Castle Mound. (1)

Mound and moat, probably a castle mound. The mound is roughly circular and about 47 yds in diameter at the base, rising about 24ft above the bottom of the ditch. The moat is still wet on the NW side. (2)

An earth-and-stone motte, 44.0m in diameter at the base, the flat summit, 22.0m in diameter, being 6.0m above the encircling moat.

The moat, once wet now marshy, is 11.0m in width and from 0.5m deep on the S side to 1.5m deep on the N side. It is fed by a stream entering from the NE and leaving from the SW.
Published 1:2500 survey revised. (3)

Additional reference. (4-5)

The earthwork remains of the large motte described by the previous authorities was seen located at SO 4619 7291 and mapped from aerial photographs. (6)

Listed and described by Shoesmith. (7)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1964

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

1934 Page(s)9

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 19-JUL-72

( 4) 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 1908

( 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 Page(s)202

( 6) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF CPE/UK/1873/6007-8 04-DEC-1946

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

Monuments in the landscape1 (1994) - vol.2 Page(s)194

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