More information : [SK 6186 9857] DRAW DYKES [G.T.] (1)
Foundations found in centre. (2)
"Near the wood denominated the park, vestiges of an ancient
edifice are yet observable. On this area, which comprises above
1,000 sq. yds., the ruins were, until very recently, tolerably
extensive; but on the rebuilding of the town, in the latter part of
the last century, the whole was removed.
The encircling dykes are yet to be seen ....... Rafters, which
appear to have sustained a drawbridge or some such construction,
upon the moat, were, before the enclosure, clearly evident. The
road which led to this quondam, hoary mansion, was below the
present rampart, and seems to have made directly to the bridge
that crossed the enclosing foss. (3)
The enclosure is roughly rectangular in shape, and is cut
diagonally by the railway.
The surrounding moat is well defingd in the western arm only,
where it forms a dry, and overgrown ditch of average depth 1.3 m.
Elsewhere it is represented by a single scarp of average height
1.0 m.
The interior is pasture land to the east of the railway, and under
the plough to the west.
A 25" A.M. survey has been made. (4)
This site is probably that of the early Manor House of Rossington.
Rossington Manor belonged to the Fossards and the Mauleys; passed
to the Crown, and was given by Henry VII to the Corporation of
Doncaster. (a). (5)
Survey of 18.2.60 unchanged. (6)
Part of the moat circuit is visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at SK 6185 9860.
Only the north and west sides of the moat are visible and appear as two broad ditches.
These measure a width of approximately 5m and 6m respectively. (7)
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