More information : (39552124) Broad low mound completely surrounded by a ditch (no breaks or causeways). No signs of bailey: might be castle-mound, but no clue as to age or purpose. (1)
Listed under round barrows. "Mound in Ditchley Park near Kiddington Drive, surrounded by a ditch 4ft. 6ins.deep, 343 ft. circumference, 9ft. high from bottom of ditch". (2)
The mound is as described above and is rounded in profile without trace of building or other disturbance on its summit. The surrounding ditch is slightly sub-circular, narrowest at the NNW.
The mound and ditch carry a few trees, possible up to 200 years
old.
Origins are obscure, may be the castle mound suggested by
Crawford or just simply a landscape feature.
The lack of historical information, topographical situation and
general construction of this feature tend to suggest it to be landscaping and doubtless contemporary with the general lay-out of Ditchley Park which is mainly 18th century. (3)
Scheduled as a Round Barrow. List Entry (NHLE) 1009415 (4)
SP 3955 2124 Ditchley Park Camp, Enstone.
Barrow c.30m diameter and 1m high with a very prominent ditch. May have been landscaped and re-dug. Not marked as an antiquity on O S map. (5) |