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Monument Number 106814
Hob Uid: 106814
Location : Shropshire Bucknell
Grid Ref : SO3558073950
Summary : Medieval motte surviving as an earthwork incorporating later ice house. Civil War weapons and pottery were found in excavation in 1952. A small much mutilated motte upon water meadows near the north bank of the River Redlake, has a base diameter of 22 metres and a height of 4.5 metres. The south side has been cut back by about 7 metres for the construction of a farm building and an ice house has been built into the north north west side. Only on the north east side is there a remaining fragment of ditch, 6 metres in width and 0.4 metres in depth. Scheduled.
More information : (SO 35587395) Tumulus (NR). (1) Finds said to have been made in the tumulus include a spearhead (said to be in possession of Mr Davies, The Farm, Bucknell) a sword and an iron axe-head found by Margaret Rutherford, 2 Old School House, Bucknell. "Contemporary pottery found 2ft 6ins - 3ft down in floor. Polatea House Tumulus 1953". (2) Castle mound at Bucknell 13ft high with surrounding ditch 3ft deep except where destroyed on the south. (3) A ringed motte, in the moat of which a bill head of the Civil Wars was unearthed in 1952, report with LFC, specimen with D G Bayliss at Leintwardine. (4) Castle Mound (NR). (5) A small, much-mutilated motte upon water meadows near the N bank of the River Redlake, has a base diameter of 22.0m and a height of 4.5m. The S side has been cut back by about 7.0m for the construction of a farm building and, into the NNW side, an ice house has been built. Only on the NE side is there a remaining fragment of ditch, 6.0m in width, 0.4m in depth. Published 1:2500 survey revised. A Civil War spearhead from the site is in Clun Museum. The pottery and the other finds, all of the Civil War period, are with Mr Bayliss, who has now left the district(a). (6) SO 356 739: Motte 100 yds (90m) NE of church. Scheduled. (7) SO 3557 7395. Motte castle and ice house 30m S of The Old Farm. Scheduled (RSM). (8) Listed by Cathcart King. (9) The motte has been mapped from aerial photographs by RCHME's Marches Uplands Mapping Project. (10)

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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Motte
Evidence : Earthwork

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Findspot, Icehouse
Evidence : Building

Components and Objects:

Period : Post Medieval
Component Monument Type : Findspot, Icehouse
Object Type : SPEAR, AXE, SWORD, VESSEL
Object Material : Pottery

Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : SALOP 285
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 19201
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Shropshire)
External Cross Reference Number : 1160
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External Cross Reference Source : MORPH2
External Cross Reference Number : MU.221.1
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SO 37 SE 3
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Associated Activities :
Activity type : EXCAVATION
Start Date : 1952-01-01
End Date : 1952-12-31

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-10-26
End Date : 1973-10-26

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

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 106814