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| HHER Number: | 34 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | GREAT WYMONDLEY CASTLE, GREAT WYMONDLEY |
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Summary
Earthwork motte and bailey, with other earthworks to the east
Images
 No image caption available © Hertfordshire County Council | |
Monument Types
- ENCLOSURE (Early Roman to Medieval - 50 AD to 1500 AD)
- MANOR HOUSE? (Early Roman to Medieval - 50 AD to 1500 AD)
- MOTTE AND BAILEY (Early Roman to Medieval - 50 AD to 1500 AD)
Protected Status
- SHINE: Wymondley Medieval Castle & Romano-British settlement
- Area of Archaeological Significance 79
Full description
A small, moated motte and bailey inserted into the SW corner of a larger, roughly rectangular earthwork. This earthwork may be medieval or even Roman in date. There are also further earthwork enclosures which could be medieval, and manorial in origin <1>.
The earthworks comprise a motte and bailey, with, attached on the east, enclosures which are probably manorial in origin. The motte is covered with unmanaged scrubby vegetation, the field to the east under pasture. There are low earthworks in this field which may represent further subdivisions of the field and a low backscarp to the bailey ditch. The relationship between the castle and the two subrectangular enclosures is unclear, but their sharp form may indicate they are later than the castle <5>.
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: HCC (General/Archaeology). Earthworks associated with Great Wymondley Castle & St Mary's Church. PNO 20266 |
| --- | Photograph: HCC (General/Archaeology). Earthworks associated with Great Wymondley Castle & St Mary's Church. PNO 20267 |
| --- | Photograph: HCC (General/Archaeology). Earthworks associated with Great Wymondley Castle & St Mary's Church. PNO 20268 |
| --- | Photograph: HCC (General/Archaeology). Earthworks and enclosure associated with Great Wymondley Castle & St Mary's Church. PNO 20269 |
| --- | Photograph: HCC (General/Archaeology). Earthworks and enclosure associated with Great Wymondley Castle & St Mary's Church. PNO 20270 |
| --- | Unpublished document: Janet Holt. 2006. What features and sites in the early landscape could have influenced the later siting of a Norman motte and bailey castle with medieval church in close proximity? (R1780). Photos |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: RCHM 1910. p105 |
| <1> | Index: OS Records. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Cave-Penny, Helena (HCC) site report. 22.1.86 |
| <3> | Bibliographic reference: VCH Herts vol.3 (1912). p119 |
| <4> | Bibliographic reference: TEHAS,3,1905,p10-11. |
| <5> | Unpublished document: National Monuments Record. NMR Monument Report (Hertfordshire). RNO 2347 p44 |
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