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Garway Hill Common Enclosure

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Other/Unknown)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

Name	Garway Hill Common Enclosure
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Herefordshire
Modern Authority	Herefordshire
1974 Authority	Hereford and Worcester
Civil Parish	Garway

Sub-rectangular enclosure, possibly Iron Age in date, on Garway Hill Common. Field investigations in 1972 found it surviving as an earthwork with rounded corners and sides 50 metres in length. it comprised a bank up to 1 metre in height above an outer ditch 0.3 metres in depth. The earthworks were badly mutilated on the south side but reasonably well preserved elsewhere. The east side was slightly convex, and had an entrance at its centre, now mutilated by a modern track. Two breaks in the ramparts near the northwest and southwest corners were caused by a modern field bank which continued to the south as a possible trackway. There were no remains of structures within the enclosure. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

May have had medieval use. Isolated from medieval settlement. Doubtful. Shoesmith suggest this as the site of the castle mention by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the place where Vortigern was burnt to death. This is more probably Little Doward Camp at Ganarew

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

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

107748

County Historic Environment Record

htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/monument?smr_no=6251

OS Map Grid Reference	SO442249
Latitude	51.9205017089844
Longitude	-2.81295990943909
Eastings	344230
Northings	224920