More information : (SO 343261) "A mound, on the SE border of Longtown parish and 250 yds SSW of Great Hunthouse, is roughly oval and partly artificial, about 1/4 acre in extent, including the defences. It has a flat top and is surrounded by a dry ditch, except on the NE and E.
Where the scarp abuts on a small stream and on the SW where the ditch is filled in. There are traces of an inner rampart on the W". (Cannot identify on available AP's (RAF 1946)). (1)
(The feature has been ploughed out. Its site is vaguely marked by a rise of ground in a generally hummocky arable field, at present under pasture. (2)
The mound could not be found during field survey by the Woolhope Archaeological Society. (3) |