Rougham mound

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are earthwork remains

NameRougham mound
Alternative Names
Historic CountrySuffolk
Modern AuthoritySuffolk
1974 AuthoritySuffolk
Civil ParishRushbrooke With Rougham

Cathcart King notes a possible motte at Rougham. It is a large flat-topped mound which was probably used as a millstead later. (PastScape)

The Suffolk HER records, in TL9164 grid square, 'Egg shaped mound circa 40 x 30m and 10 feet high. On the Rougham side of the present Great Barton / Rougham parish boundary, circa 400m S of the Thurston parish boundary. Adjoins N-S Roman road RGH 017 and E-W Bury - Thurston road (not on Hodsinsons 1783 map). Possible location of Thedwastre Hill, Hundred meeting place (Goult) though probably modern.' A mound is marked on the OS map at TL911646.

Gatehouse Comments

Moot Hills can be isolated but mottes are rarely as isolated from settlement as this location. King used 'possible' as a term when he thought a site was doubtful. This was heathland and there is some suggestion that, in East Anglia, castles were sited on less agriculturally valuable land like heath but, even so, does seem a unlikely castle site.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTL919642
Latitude52.2416687011719
Longitude0.81480997800827
Eastings591900
Northings264200
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2001, The Castles of East Anglia (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 88 (slight)
  • Goult, W., 1990, A Survey of Suffolk Parish History
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 460 (possible)