More information : (Centred TL 495128) Earthworks (NR) (1)
Earthworks SW of Sheering Hall (2)
Foundations have been uncovered just below the surface at TL49551284. (3)
At TL 49581282 within the grounds of Sheering Hall (TL 41 SE 15) on high ground immediately N of the Pincey Brook flood plain, are the remains of ringwork of roughly circular form probably of the 11th c, as the site is said to have been a baronial holding at Domesday. The NE arc is overlaid by Sheering Hall and obliteratred by landscaping gardening, but the W and SW arcs survive as a strong rampart, c 1.0m maximum height above the interior, with outer an ditch, 4.5m deep from the top of the rampart. The ditch around the W side was and still is dry, but on the S and E arcs was a wet moat, formed by diverting the Pincey Brook around the base of the rampart, and retained by a bank, 2.0m high, on the S side. The level of water was maintained by a bay c.1.5m high,across the flood plain to the S of the ringwork. The bay is now breached, and the moat is dry. The interior of the work, which must have measured about 70.0m in diameter, contains no evidence of contemporary buildings. (The slopes shown on OS 1:2500 are the result of levelling to accommodate a tennis court).
Published survey (25") revised. (4)
No change. (5)
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