MONUMENT NO. 57778

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"Pond O' the Hill" - A possible Castle mound. Field investigation in 1961 noted that part of the enclosure and a moat survived, but there was no evidence of a Motte. Field investigation in 1964 indicated that the monument had been obliterated.

Remains of a probable medieval moated site and a bank are visible as earthworks on air photographs.

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[SE 66930065] Pond o' the Hill [T.I.] Castle Mound [G.T.]. (1)

"Blaxton, Pond o' th' Hill. There is an Inclosure evidently very ancient, at the corner of which we find a little mound surrounded with a ditch". (2)

Pond o' the Hill. It is a mound surrounded by a moat, and was evidently a castle mound. (3)

There are now only fragmentary remains of this feature sited at SE66930066. The corner of the enclosure bank and a part of the outer bank of the moat (approx. 1.0m. high) survive, but the central mound has been completely obliterated.
A 25" survey has been made. (4)

The remains of this feature are too fragmentary to determine its purpose or period of construction. (5)

Condition unchanged. (6)

No longer exists - deleted from field document. (7)

Remains of a probable medieval moated site and a bank are visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at SE 6693 0067.
Only part of the north-west corner of the enclosure bank and outer bank of the moat are visible.
To the north-east a linear bank runs on a north-east south-west alignment for approximately 139m. Possibly this feature is associated with the moated site.
On the 1978 Ordnance Survey vertical photography the monument appears only as soilmarks.
(8-9)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1956

( 2) General reference

"Finningley" 1877, p.7. (G.H. Woodhouse)

( 3) Annotated Record Map

Rec. 6" (O.G.S. Crawford, undtd)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 FRH 14-JUN-61

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 FC 19-JUN-61

( 6) Field Investigators Comments

F3 RWE 08-SEP-64

( 7) Large Scale / Small Scale Map Revisers Comment

LS 25" (SC Bontoft 17.6.1983)

(8) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

RAF CPE/UK/2563 4483 28-Mar-1948

(9) Vertical aerial photograph reference number

NMR MAL 71047 28 03-May-1971

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