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Monument Number 105365
Hob Uid: 105365
Location : Shropshire Clun
Grid Ref : SO2893082560
Summary : An 11-12th century motte and bailey surviving as an earthwork. The motte has been much mutilated by gravel digging, but had a base diameter of about 25 metres. Its present maximum height is 2.3 metres. The ditch and outer bank remain only on the south east side, elsewhere they have been dug away. The ditch is 10 metres wide and 2 metres deep; the bank is 8 metres wide and 1.2 metres high externally. The bailey is a level rectangular platform around 14 metres by 25 metres. Scheduled.
More information : (SO 28938256) Castle Mound (NR) (1) Listed by Hogg and King, 11th-12th centuries, "Bicton Mound" consists of a mount 8' high, fosse with counterscarp of 7' and outer bank 2' on south side. The other sides are mutilated by gravel digging.(3) (2-3) A motte with ditch and outer bank cut from a natural glacial moraine.There is no trace of a bailey. The motte has been much mutilated by gravel digging, but had a base diameter of about 25.0m. Its present maximum height is 2.3m.The ditch and outer bank remain only on the SE side, elsewhere they have been dug away. The ditch is 10.0m wide and 2.0m deep; the bank is 8.0m wide and 1.2m high externally. Published 1:2500 survey revised(4) SO 289 825. Bicton motte and bailey (sic). Scheduled. (5) The motte at Bicton was seen as earthworks and mapped from aerial photographs during the Marches Uplands Mapping Project. (Morph No. MU.265.4) (6) The motte was constructed through the adaptation of a low glacial mound. The southern part of this mound seems to have been altered to form a small bailey, a level rectangular platform around 14 metres by 25 metres. Scheduled. (7) Listed by Cathcart King. (8)

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Source details : OS 6" 1964
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Source details : AHA Hogg & DJC King
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Source details : JC Wall & EA Downman
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Source details : English Heritage SAM List Salop March 1994
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Source details : NMR SO2982/7-9 01-JUL-1981
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Source details : EH Scheduled Monument Revision, 09-MAR-2001
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : C11-12
Monument End Date : 1199
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Motte And Bailey
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : Salop 257
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Shropshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1197
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External Cross Reference Source : MORPH2
External Cross Reference Number : MU.265.4
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 33834
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SO 28 SE 23
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-09-13
End Date : 1973-09-13

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 1993-01-01
End Date : 1994-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 105365