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Monument Number 368081

Hob Uid: 368081
Location :
Hertfordshire
North Hertfordshire
Barkway
Grid Ref : TL3730036000
Summary : Periwinkle Hill. Alleged site of motte and bailey. Aerial photographs and ground inspection are inconclusive, the only visible features being possible building platforms and tracks.
More information : (TL 3730 3600) Periwinkle Hill (NAT) Motte & Bailey (NR) (1)

A small moated mound with a bailey on the NE, partly sub-divided by a branch from the ditch which surrounds the whole. No traces of ramparts remain. The eastern arm of the moat is wet. Oval in shape,it measures 280 ft in length and 230 ft in width. In poor condition through ploughing and the erection of farm buildings on its western half. (2,3)

"Ploughed over in 1949". (4)

Soil marks visible. (5)

Periwinkle Hill, a low broad ridge, is ploughed annually, reducing the "motte" to a height of 1.5m, and spreading it to a vague oval shape, 36.0m WNW-ESE by 24.0m. All that remains of the so called "bailey" is the outer scarp of the ditch, 0.5m maximum height, in the W arc.

The classification of the earthwork as a motte and bailey can be neither confirmed nor denied by ground inspection. AP's suggest small enclosures, possible building steadings and a track occupying the E side of the "bailey". The ditch around the "motte" to the N and E has squarish corners unlike a motte. According to farmworkers much pottery has been found on the site, though none of it was retained. No buildings or earthworks shown on Enclosure Map (1808).
Re-surveyed at 1:2500. (6)

Ploughed out. (7)

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Monument Types:
Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Medieval
Monument End Date : 1540
Monument Start Date : 1066
Monument Type : Motte And Bailey
Evidence : Conjectural Evidence
Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Building Platform, Trackway
Evidence : Cropmark

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TL 33 NE 4
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1973-02-23
End Date : 1973-02-23