More information : (SP 5533 7714) Mound (LB) (1)
"Round Hill" is a moated mound 30ft high, and 50ft across at the top. The top is flat, but has been trenched so as to present a tricuspid outline, but there is no trace of a base court. Outside the ditch to the SE, is a smaller and apparently sepulchral tumulus. (2)
The mound is visible on AP's and its ditch has the appearance of widening out to the NE - possibly suggesting a bailey? Nothing can be seen of the smaller tumulus said (by Clark (2)) to be to the SE; rig and furrows extend to the ditch. (3)
The earthworks are of a castle mound, mutilated on top, and to the NNW the remains of its bailey. See annotated 25" survey. No tumulus is to be seen but debris in the plough marks the site of more recent activity, probably post-medieval. (4)
RCHM records traces of a ditch around the base of the motte up to 2m deep, with a bulge of the mound (possibly spoil from the trench on top) projecting into it on the S. side. Air photographs showing a discoloured area, and traces of a possible W. ditch suggest that a bailey may have lain to the N. No finds from the area. [RCHM plan]. (5)
Listed by Cathcart King. (6)
Full description of the monument. (7) |