More information : (SJ 43593498)(1) At the east end of Welsh Hampton village
is still a small mound supposed to have been a barrow, a second
one within 50 yds of it having been removed in 1873 to make way
for a house. This mound, 12 feet in height above the road,
consisted almost entirely of gravel and no finds of any kind were
made (1) (2) (3). Auden mentions a mound in "Moat Meadow" at
Welshampton, supposed locally to be the site of a "Castle"(4)
presumably the one shown on APs at SJ 43583499 (5). (1-5)
A round barrow, situated at SJ 43573499 upon the top of a
pasture-covered ridge, has a diameter of 20.0m and a height
of 2.2m. A shallow ditch on the E side has been reduced and
spread by ploughing, and is 10.0m in width, 0.4m in depth. The
feature is known to the farm-owner Mr Lloyd, as "The Round
Barrow". About 40.0m to the E of the barrow at SJ 43613501, a
house, probably that erected in 1873 stands upon a raised area
of levelled, made-up ground, which could well be the base of
a second, destroyed mound, probably another round barrow.
Several local enquiries of elderly villagers and of a farmer
failed to locate 'Moat Meadow' and there appears to be no
local tradition of the site of a 'castle' at Welshampton.
Barrow surveyed at 1:2500. (6)
SJ 435349. Round Barrow. Scheduled. (7)(8)
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