More information : (SX 23649776) Earthwork (NR). (1)
Small and weak Md ringwork, bank only 6' high, with central area level with external ground level. Visited. (2)
A castle once stood in the field, called Castle Hill, next to the churchyard and foundations of extensive buildings may yet be traced on the site. (3)
SX 23649775; A ring motte some 42.0m overall diameter, situated on an E-W ridge. The rampart rises up to 1.5m above an outer ditch which has an average depth of 0.4m. The interior is 0.8m above the outer ground surface level, and there is a platform 0.3m high and some 8.0m square in the centre. The entrance to the work is in the NE, where there is a well defined causeway across the ditch.
An E-W ditch with a bank on its S side utilizes the ditch on the S of the motte. It is possible that this represents the remains of a bailey, but it seems more likely that it is an old trackway associatedwith local village shrinkage, visible as a series of banks and depressions immediately to the S. Resurveyed at 1:2500. (4)
(SX 236 977) The ringwork is situated within an area of earthworks. These have been surveyed. (5,6)
Listed by Cathcart king. (7) |