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Cropmarks/earthworks of a possible motte and bailey. APs show cropmarks and slight earthworks comprising two parallel linear ditches (possibly trackways) leading to a D-shaped enclosure ditch (approx. 80m x 70m) and a vague oval mound (approx. 35m in diameter). Within the enclosure are rectangular subdivisions which could be building steadings. Ploughed annually, the mound survives to a mere 1m high and the enclosure ditch to approx. 30cms deep in 1984. This is supposed to be the castle belonging to the chief manor of Reed <6>.
| --- | Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. Cropmarks of motte and bailey on Periwinkle Hill, Barkway. PNO 3091 |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1947. Cropmarks of enclosures and ditches, and Periwinkle Hill, Buckland/Reed. PNO 3571 |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Air Photo Services. 1994. Periwinkle Hill motte and bailey, Barkway. PNO 8098 |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Air Photo Services. 1994. Periwinkle Hill motte and bailey, Barkway. PNO 8099 |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Air Photo Services. 1994. Periwinkle Hill, and cropmarks of linear features east of Rokey Wood, Barkway. PNO 8100 |
| --- | Aerial Photograph: Essex County Council. 1997. Periwinkle Hill motte and bailey, Barkway. PNO 8816 |
| --- | Unpublished document: Mike Daniels (HCC) site report. 6.9.84 |
| --- | Index: OS Records. |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: RCHM (England). 1911. Inventory of the historical monuments in Hertfordshire. - p47 |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: VCH Herts vol.2 (1908). p118 |
| --- | Bibliographic reference: Renn, Derek. 1971. Medieval castles in Hertfordshire. p13 |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Lionel Munby. 1977. The Hertfordshire landscape. p72 |