THE MOUNT

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A moated site, known as The Mount, set on low-lying ground in the Severn Vale. A square moat encloses an island measuring approximately 50 metres by 48 metres. The motte at the centre now only stands 1.5 metres high but was previously recorded as 10 feet high. The moat is 10 to 16 metres wide and 3-4 metres deep. The moat is believed to be the site of the manor house of Haresfield which was still standing in 1680. The site lies close to the village church of St Peter's and the large number of footpaths converging on this area suggests the importance of the monument in the medieval period. Scheduled.

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(SO 81011050) The Mount (NR) Moat (NR) (1)

The earthworks at Haresfield consist of a mound standing nearly 10ft above ground level surrounded by a ditch 18ft wide and 9ft deep. In the centre of the mound is a level platform about 35 yds square and 2.5ft high, and between this and the moat, running parallel to the latter, is a slight ditch and bank, probably originally surmounted by a stockade. (2)

Fosbrooke states that the de Bohun's had a castle at Haresfield but this has been ignored or denied by other writers who have erroneously placed the castle at Harescombe (see SO 81 SW 4). "The Mount", Haresfield is undoubtedly a castle mound. The mound is now little more than 1.0m.above the surrounding fields but it has evidently been truncated and ornamented in modern times. The small bank and ditch mentioned by Witts is part of this. The surrounding waterfilled ditch narrows at the NW part where a modern footbridge may be on the site of the original entranceway.
The de Bohuns were at Haresfield from soon after the conquest until 1373 and there is a C14th effigy of one in Haresfield church. (3)

Surveyed at 1:2500. (4)

Resurveyed at 1:2500. (5)

The Mount is apparently the site of the medieval moated manor-house of the manor of Haresfield, held after the Conquest by Durand, Sheriff of Gloucester, and later by the de Bohuns. (6)

Additional reference. (7)

Listed by Cathcart King. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:2500 1923

( 2) by G B Witts 1883 Archaeological handbook of the county of Gloucester, being an explanatory description of the archaeological map of Gloucestershire

No. 48 (G.B.Witts) Page(s)24-5

( 3) General reference

History of Gloucestershire 1807 (Fosbrooke) Page(s)300

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 NVQ 03-MAR-50

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 MJF 20-FEB-1970

( 6) edited by C.R. Elrington and N.M. Herbert 1972 A history of the county of Gloucester, volume 10

The Victoria history of the counties of England Herbert NM Page(s)190-1

( 7) Scheduled Monument Notification

15-FEB-2000

( 8) 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)181

(9) Scheduled Monument Notification

Scheduling Amendment 03-Sep-2002

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