MONUMENT NO. 112472

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Motte and Bailey and Medieval settlement earthworks. The circular mound is 2.1 metres high and 30 metres in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch 1.9 metres deep and 50 metres in diameter. There is evidence of a bailey, fishponds, ridge and furrow and a sunken way possibly associated with a deserted settlement. Scheduled.

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(SO 64405745) Moat (NR). (1)

A circular moat with traces of an outer enclosure on the N and NW. (2-3)

DMV. (4). Earthworks between the church and moat. Medieval settlement earthworks (5). (4-6)

A circular mound densely covered by vegetation at SO 64405745 is 2.1m high and 30.0m in diameter. It is surrounded by a ditch 1.9m deep and 50.0m in diameter. The mound shows no evidence of a building.To the north at SO 64395749 are the foundations of a building but it is unlikely that they are contemporary with the mound.

To the north and west there is evidence of a DMV.

A rectangular depression at SO 64375753 measures 60.0m by 30.0m on an East- West axis. To the east of this is a pentagonal pitched enclosure displaying "Rig and Furrow" in the interior.

A ditch, to the west of the moated mound, has an average width of 6.0m, and apparently connects with the rectangular depression.
Surveyed at 1:2500. (7)

'Motte and bailey castle' (Additional area and change of name and category in scheduling). 'To the north and north-west of the motte, a bailey. Inside the bailey, evidence of buildings. On the north the ditch has been enlarged, possibly as a quarry, possibly as fish-ponds. To the south of the motte, ridge and furrow. Earthworks between the motte and the church, and to the south of the church, may be house platforms. A sunken road continues the line of the lane which runs along the north side of the churchyard eastwards to the western edge of the bailey'. (8)

Listed by Shoesmith. (9)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1964

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, England 1932 An inventory of the historical monuments in Herefordshire. Volume II: east

1932 Page(s)77

( 3) General reference

RCHM Here MSS plan

( 4) Medieval Village Research Group annual report

10 - 1962 Page(s)2

( 5) Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club : transactions

(S C Stanford) 39 - 1967 Page(s)91

( 6) Aerial photograph

APs 106G/UK 1358/7269-70 2 APR 1946

( 7) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DRB 12-JUL-70

( 8) Scheduled Monument Notification

DOE (IAM) Rec Form 23.10.76

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

Monuments in the landscape1 (1994) - vol.2 Page(s)103-4

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