Archaeology Notes

Event ID 721546

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT84NE 15 NT 89320 47720

(NT 8932 4772) Earthwork (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1980).

This earthwork, which is probably of medieval date, has been severely reduced by ploughing. Formerly it comprised a roughly circular low mound measuring 50m by 44m, which was flanked on the W and NE by a broad ditch and on the SE by steep river cliffs. Around the N and W edges of the summit of the mound there was a low bank, and the entrance lay on the W. RCAHMS 1915; 1980, visited 1979.

A now crescent-shaped mound, 1.2m high, with a summit measurement of 56m by 40m. A broad shallow ditch runs N from the W, fading out on the N.

On the S, the mound falls away down to the river; there are a large number of stones lying on this side. The bank on the W side noted by the RCAHMS is now ploughed out.

Visited by OS(JD) 11 January 1955.

A few years ago an attempt was made by the farmer to level this site and it is now visible as an oval, flat-topped mound measuring 66.0m ENE-WSW by 53.0m transversely with a maximum height of 1.3m. Slight traces of a ditch survive on the W. Numerous dressed stones on the S side suggest that a substantial building (? castle or tower) formerly stood here.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS(RD) 6 December 1971.

Photographed by RCAHMS, flown 1977.