Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698512

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS25NW 24 2122 5620.

(NS 2122 5620) Motte (NR)

OS 6" map (1964)

There is a mote or dun in Kelburne Park.

Information from K A Steer, RCAHMS, letter 16 April 1954.

NS 2122 5620. Just over 50ft OD on a W-facing slope is an apparently artificial mound raised above the general level by 1.6m on the E and 7.0m on the W. The flat summit has recently been disturbed (probably by tree removal). It is roughly circular, average diameter 20.0m and has an earthen rampart, 1.0m wide and 0.5m high on its E perimeter. There is no trace of a defensive ditch.

Visited by OS (DS) 21 September 1956

This mound, which is generally as described above, now lies in a young dense plantation, making a close inspection impossible.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JTT) 28 October 1964

This work, within widely-spaced mature afforestation, has adapted a slightly raised natural promontory on a W-facing scarp line. In form and location it is similar to the probable homestead at NS25SW 6. Generally as described by OS (DS), the once substantial perimeter rampart or wall, 0.3m high on the E, has been levelled elsewhere, and the level interior is featureless. The cultivated field to the E shows no trace of a ditch.

Visited by OS (JRL) 9 February 1983