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Redisham Mill Mount

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

Name	Redisham Mill Mount
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Suffolk
Modern Authority	Suffolk
1974 Authority	Suffolk
Civil Parish	Redisham

Mill Mount (Castle Mount - Class D Earthwork) Southwest of Redisham village is a small circular mount 9 ft high, with a slight depression in the middle of its summit. It is surrounded by a fosse with a counterscarp now measuring 4 ft at its highest point, and a breadth of 10 ft at its broadest part; but both height and width have been badly trodden by cattle (VCH). "On Mill Mount; a castle mound, presumably later used for the base of a windmill" (Pevsner). Mill Mount was bulldozed flat three years ago leaving no trace. It stood on level ground which was under crop at the time of investigation. No further information to verify classification as a "castle mound" (Field Investigators Comments-F1 NKB 09-JUL-73). (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

The location, isolated and a kilometre from the parish church, seems very unlikely as a castle, although King and Pevsner seem to have had no doubt. It is now unlikely that any evidence has survived (Was gaining this awkward corner of a field worth destroying this site?). Robert Liddiard has shown that, in East Anglia, castle can be pushed out from village centres onto poorer agricultural land - this is clearly not the situation here. The position on the parish boundary might be coincidental but may suggest a pre-historic origin. Despite King Gatehouse considers this a questionable site.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

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

391691

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MSF1043&resourceID=1017

OS Map Grid Reference	TM398837
Latitude	52.3992385864258
Longitude	1.52428996562958
Eastings	639850
Northings	283700