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Dudston Castle Mound
Hob Uid: 105565
Location : Shropshire Chirbury with Brompton
Grid Ref : SO2445097430
Summary : Motte surviving as an earthwork at Dudston. A mutilated mound in a low situation, about 9 feet in height on the north side, formerly surrounded by a ditch 3 feet deep. The longest measurement of its top is 42 feet, but its true diameter cannot now be determined. Scheduled.
More information : (SO 24459743) Castle Mound (NR) (1) SO 244974 Dudston Motte A mutilated mound in a low situation, about 9 feet in height on the N side, formerly surrounded by a ditch now 3 feet deep. The longest measurement of its top is 42 feet but its true diameter cannot now be determined. Clark records that the road had cut away nearly half the mound and that traces remained on the mound of some kind of "gazebo". (2-3) The motte is 4.2 m high heavily mutilated on the N and NE sides. Only a small fragment of a water-filled ditch survives on the S side. There is no sign of a bailey or of a building on the mound. (4) SO 245 974. Motte at Dudston. Scheduled. (5) SO 2445 9741. Motte castle at the south end of East Dudston hamlet. Scheduled (RSM). (6) Listed by Cathcart King. (7) The location of the motte falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. The mound is situated adjacent to buildings in the hamlet of East Dudston, and could not be recorded from aerial photographic evidence. (8)

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Source details : OS 6" 1964
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Source details : Montgom Coll 10 1877 336-7 (G T Clark)
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Source details : English Heritage SAMs List - Shropshire. 1987. 17.
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Source details : English Heritage Scheduling Amendment 20/NOV/1995
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Source details : RCHME: Marches Uplands Mapping Project
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Motte
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : SALOP 281
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 19228
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SO 29 NW 2
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-03-14
End Date : 1973-03-14

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1993-01-01
End Date : 1994-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : WATCHING BRIEF
Start Date : 2004-01-01
End Date : 2004-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Dudston Castle Mound