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North Lincolnshire HER
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| HER Number: | 2375 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | `CASTLE HILLS' MOATED SITE |
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Summary
`Castle Hills' moated site, formerly recorded as a motte & bailey castle.
Monument Types
- MOAT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status - None
Associated Finds - None
Associated Events
- National Mapping Programme - Lincolnshire
- Desk-Based Assessment of land at Hibaldstow Airfield.
Full description
Castle Hills, moated site (recorded as motte and bailey, OSSI). Former substantial earthworks of two adjoining moats, on S side moats appear to have been double. Vicarage, churchyard and 19th cent. schoolhouse occupy W part of former enclosures. Remaining SE portion, centred on SK 974 999, (area of c. 1.5ha.), levelled and ploughed 1961-1974, undulations, rubble and soil marks survive. The garden of house at SK 9744 9999 contains the only surviving earthworks, substantial stone foundations were encountered during house construction. (SMI; OS 25in. survey, revised 1964). [1]
<1> Loughlin, N and Miller, KR, 1979, A Survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside, 208 (BOOK). SLS523.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | BOOK: Loughlin, N and Miller, KR. 1979. A Survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside. A4 Bound. 208. |
Related records
| 21248 | Related to: UNDATED DITCHES AND PITS, SCHOOL LANE (Monument) |
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