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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