More information : (SE 5574 7507) "There is an antiquity here ... probably mediaeval and a cellar. It is approximately at this point on the map and your symbol may imply this site (referring to the apparent outline of a building on the OS 6" 1909-50). A mound surrounds it and it may have been originally 'the Mount'. It is, as it were, built into a tumulus and is now half filled with rubbish. The walling is ? dry stone, but there are quantities of plaster, etc. about, though these may be parts of the rubbish. (May possibly be a Castle Mound). (1) `The Mount' is an earthen mound approximately 30m diameter and externally 2m high. it is completely hollowed out to accommodate what appears to be the cellar of a building. The cellar walls do not exceed the height of the mound, and access into it is provided by a sunken way cut through the north side of the latter. Two earthen ramps in the SE quadrant lead onto the top of the mound. It is situated on the southern edge of Newburgh Priory Estate, and is probably the remains of a belevedere associated with the house, which dates as a private dwelling from the Dissolution. Published survey (25") revised. (2) No change to field report of 20-JUN-1974. Revised survey transferred to 1:2500 MSD. (3) |