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MONUMENT NO. 66382

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Possible site of Callow Castle disused by c.1274. The remains are said to have been observed by Leland in about 1540. Field investigation in 1971 failed to find evidence for the castle. No further information was gained during an aerial photographic mapping survey by RCHME because the site is covered by trees on the available photographs.

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The castle was built on the site of an Iron Age hill fort on Callow Hill at SJ 38440480 (SJ 30 SE 1). This castle, probably built of stone, was disused by about 1274, but its remains were observed by Leland about 1540. (1)

Recent examination of the hill fort revealed nothing about the site of a castle, but a charter of about 1274-8 .... speaks uncomprisingly of a "castellum" here to which the service of two half knights fees had formerly pertained (Longleat Mss). Leland mentions the "ruins of a castle or pile", but this could be a reference to the hill fort (SJ 30 SE 1). (2-3)

The earthwork on Callow Hill could be a "ringwork". There is
no evidence of a castle within the earthwork. (4)

Listed as a vanished castle by Cathcart King. (5)

This site falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. No further information was gained during that survey because the site is covered by trees on the available photographs. (6)

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( 1) edited by A.T.Gaydon 1968 A history of Shropshire: volume VIII

The Victoria history of the counties of England (Gaydon & Lawson) 1968 Page(s)306

( 2) Shropshire Archaeological Society newsletter

(J Lawson) 1965 Page(s)28

( 3) General reference

Leland's Itinerary 1535-1543 2 1964 26-27 (L T Smith)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 MHB 16-JUL-71

(5) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

2 - 1983 Page(s)433

(6) RCHME/EH Aerial Photographers Comment

RCHME: Marches Uplands Mapping Project

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