MONUMENT NO. 305435

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Documentary evidence indicates there was the site of a Motte at Castle Croft. The site of the mound is well known but has been used as a dumping ground for rubbish and has been much mutilated. The motte is now descheduled.

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The earthwork in the grounds of Huntley Hall, although not mentioned by Plot (a) is shewn as an 'ancient fortification' on a map dated 1682, which is bound up with Plot's 'History'. (1)

The field adjoining it is shewn as 'Castle Croft' - by which name it was still known in the 1860's.
SK 0064 4134 The site of this mound is well-known to Mr Plant but has for many years been used for dumping gravel and waste materials from the nearby quarries with the result that the mound is completely buried beneath the dump. Mr Plant stated that there had been a brick-culvert built into one side of the mound before its burial. Older residents in the district maintained that the mound was a large spoil-heap from the cutting of the road through the natural rock in the area centred at SK 0070 4085 but this seems hardly probable if the mound was shown by Plot - Authy 1a.

Enquiry at the offices of the gravel company established that it is not their intention to remove any of the dumped material within the forseeable future.

No identifiable trace of the mound is visible - the field-name
Castle-croft would indicate that it was a motte. (2)

No change. (3)

Descheduled. (4)

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( 1) General reference

T Wm Salt AS 1926 153 (C G O Bridgeman)

( 1a) General reference

Nat Hist of Staffs 1686 (R Plot)

( 2) Field Investigators Comments

F1 WW 28-JAN-57

( 2A) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F2 ASP 08-NOV-74

( 4) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

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