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CHER Number:03267
Type of record:Monument
Name:Possible site of motte, Orwell

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 362 504
Parish:Orwell, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire
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Monument Type(s):

  • MOTTE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Full description

1, On an estate map of c 1680 (now in CUL) a mound is shown between the spring and the church on an approximately square parcel of some 1,5 acres inscribed 'Lordship'. This mound, which may have been a small motte, was levelled c 1883 to make way for a school.
O1, Planning application s/1373/84. Correspondence in parish file. There is no trace of the motte now, and it seems a very unlikely location.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: RCHM. 1968. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Cambridgeshire. Volume I. West Cambridgeshire. 188 (illus)
<2>Bibliographic reference: CCC Archaeology. Medieval Village Survey.