Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700828

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS43NW 25 4167 3587

(NS 4167 3587) Castle Hill (NAT)

OS 1:10000 map (1979)

Possible castle mound. A regular oval mound with a flat top, 55 by 30ft.

J Smith 1895.

Castle Hill is a tree-covered mound, projecting as a spur from an elevated ridge. The top is flat and 5.0m in diameter. There is no evidence of a ditch cutting it off from the ridge (though any such may have been obliterated by the Golf Course there) and no traces of defensive works, but the mound seems to be partly artificial and, with its flat top, could be a motte.

Visited by OS (JLD), 8 June 1954

Castle Hill: This mound, noted in the ONB (1856) merely as 'a small eminence' shows no evidence of adaptation. Although it looks imposing from the lower ground on the N, it merges naturally with the contours on the uphill (S) side, where it has a maximum height of only 1.4m. The top is rounded and without an obvious diameter.

Visited by OS (JRL), 4 July 1982.