More information : (SJ 28360067) Motte (NR) (1)
The motte at Wotherton measures 27 feet north-south by 30 feet east-west and possibly was not more than 4 feet high. It stands in a low and overlooked position in the bend of a small stream, the coombe of which makes a formidable obstacle on that side. The farm standing close to the motte obscures any bailey there may have been, apart from a shallow and ill-marked ditch on the south-east side with a scarp of four feet and a counter-scarp of two feet. The farmer claims to have struck blocks of stone when erecting a pole about 1965. (2)
A circular mound, 20.0m in diameter and averaging 1.0m high, with a ditch up to 0.4m deep on all but the north-west side. There is no evidence of a bailey. Published survey 1:2500 revised. (3)
A small, grass-covered, earthen motte; 20.0m in diameter, and averaging 1.0m in height. A shallow ditch on all but the north-west side, directly above the stream, is some 4.0m in width, and up to 0.4m in depth. It is being filled in with farm rubbish on the south-west. There are no certain traces of a counterscarp bank, (2) and no signs of a bailey.
Published 1:2500 survey 1972, correct. (4)
SJ 283006. Mound at Wotherton. Scheduled. (5)
SJ 2833 0067. Motte castle 100m north of Wotherton Hall. Scheduled (RSM). (6)
Listed by Cathcart King (7)
The motte and its surrounding ditch are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and have been mapped by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. (8) |