MONUMENT NO. 234418

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Earthwork remains of a castle mound and bailey. The mound rises 4.5 metres above the bailey, but has been damaged on the south face, possibly by the removal of trees. The bailey is surrounded by a well preserved bank, circa 1 metre wide and rising up to 1.5 metres above the enclosure. On the west the bailey bank rises circa 3 metres above the flood plain of the river Alver. Scheduled.

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(SU 58430011) Windmill Mound (GT) (1)

Castle Mound. (2)

At Rowner the monks had a windmill. (3,4)

A tree-covered, overgrown mound, resembling a round barrow, but suspiciously near the edge of overgrown gravel diggings. A sceduled ancient monument. (5)

A castle mound, with a small bailey on its S side, commanding a crossing of the River Alver. The mound rises 4.5m above the bailey, but has been damaged on the south face, possibly by the removal of trees.
The bailey is surrounded by a well preserved bank, c 1.0m wide and rising up to 1.5m above the enclosure. On the west the bailey bank rises c.3m above the flood plain of the R Alver. There are traces of a ditch on the north side of the motte, but most of it has been destroyed by the construction of a modern road. There are no traces of a ditch outside the bailey.
No entrance is now visible, but it may have been from the
north-west between the mound and the bailey bank.
The earthwork is now heavily overgrown. (6)

No change. Published 1:2500 survey correct. (7)

(SU 58430011) Motte & Bailey (NR) (8)

No change. 1:2500 Survey correct. (9)

Listed by Cathcart King. (10)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1931-8

( 2) Annotated Record Map

Rec 6" (O G S Crawford, udtd)

( 3) Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society

(F Brune) 2 - 1890-3 Page(s)343

( 4) edited by William Page 1908 The Victoria history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, volume three

The Victoria history of the counties of England 1908 Page(s)218

( 5) Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society

(Capt G Civil) 18 - 1951-3 Page(s)42

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DS 19-JAN-56

( 7) Field Investigators Comments

F2 ASP 24-JAN-69

( 8) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:1250 1974

( 9) Field Investigators Comments

F3 JGB 01-FEB-83

(10) 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)195

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