Brunston, Fish Ponds

NT25NW 4.01 20232 58300.

A hundred yards E of the ruin of Brunston Castle is a rectilinear excavation 4' deep, in which rise four flat mounds, c. 53' x 35'. The ditches average 22' in breadth, measured scarp to scarp, and are wet and swampy even in the driest weather. A spring is a few yards W. The S ditch appears to have been bordered by a wall of turf and stone. These remains are very possibly those of a fish pond.

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1920

NT 2023 5850 A fish pond, now dried up, comprising four flat mounds separated and enclosed by flat bottomed ditches 7.0m broad and up to 1.0m high. The mounds range in size from 12.0m by 8.0m to 19.0m by 11.0m.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (BS) 6 November 1975.