Churchill; The Mount
Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)
There are earthwork remains
| Name | Churchill; The Mount |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Oxfordshire |
| Modern Authority | Oxfordshire |
| 1974 Authority | Oxfordshire |
| Civil Parish | Churchill |
Small rounded mound, sometimes identified as a motte. Rejected by King as appearing to be a barrow. Recorded in PastScape as "Bowl barrow, probably landscaped" The Oxfordshire HER writes is classified as an Anglo-Saxon hlaew.
The Mount bell barrow is a well preserved example of its class and will contain undisturbed archaeological and environmental evidence relating to its construction and the landscape in which it was built.
The monument includes a well preserved Bronze Age bell barrow known as 'The Mount', 110m south west of Mount Farm. It is situated on a ridge running from north east to south west with views to the east, south and west. The barrow mound measures 22m in diameter and stands up to 2.2m high. A level 2m wide berm around the base of the mound is surrounded by a quarry ditch from which material was obtained during construction of the monument. This ditch has become partially infilled over the years but remains visible at ground level as a shallow depression 4m wide and c.0.4m deep. Beyond the ditch, there are traces of an outer bank which survives up to 1m wide and 0.1m high. (Scheduling Report)
Round barrow - large mound, no sign of bailey and unlikely to be a motte. Might be a Saxon barrow of Asthall. It has a fine surrounding ditch, a conical top, and there is a trace of revetment at base of slope. All these signs might be due to C18th reworking of mound. (VCH)
This is a fine, undamaged bowl barrow, 22m in diameter and 2.2m high surrounded by a ditch, 505m wide and 0.7m deep. There is a strong possibility that the present conical appearance of the mound is due to an early C19 landscaping when it was first planted with conifers; it is now ringed at base with 50 year old conifers. (OS Record)
Classified as AS hlaew for MPP; NOT scored as bell barrow because of other identification. (Oxfordshire HER)
This site is a scheduled monument protected by law
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SP279237 |
| Latitude | 51.9112281799316 |
| Longitude | -1.59551000595093 |
| Eastings | 427920 |
| Northings | 223710 |
