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Diggets Wood Mound

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are no visible remains

Name	Diggets Wood Mound
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Herefordshire
Modern Authority	Herefordshire
1974 Authority	Hereford and Worcester
Civil Parish	Kilpeck

Mound - roughly round, about 26 yds in diameter at the base and 6 ft high (RCHME).The mound averaging 18.0m diameter and up to 2.0m high is unlikely to be a motte as it lies within what was formerly an artificial pond or lake formed by damming Morlas Brook. The east portion of this dam remains at SO 4407 2950 and the mound is probably an artificial island (Field Investigators Comments F1 MHB 21-JUN-72). During 1973-4 the mound was levelled by bull-dozing, preparatory to ploughing and conversion of the site to pasture. The site and spoil heap were examined but nothing was found and would seem to have been "a defensive construction possibly of 11th - 12th century date" (Kay, 1979). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

If medieval there is a slight possibility it was a defended 'knight's fee' farmstead although other possibilities, such as an earthwork (spoil heap; relic of dam; etc.) associated with water mill, may be more credible. The modern landscape has been much altered and the old OS map should be examined.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

107672

County Historic Environment Record

htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/monument?smr_no=6789

OS Map Grid Reference	SO440294
Latitude	51.9605293273926
Longitude	-2.81522011756897
Eastings	344080
Northings	229430