Burton Grove Farm

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are uncertain remains

NameBurton Grove Farm
Alternative NamesBurtuna
Historic CountryWiltshire
Modern AuthoritySwindon
1974 AuthorityWiltshire
Civil ParishSouth Marston

A mound believed by A D Passmore to be the remains of a round barrow although standing upon a clay subsoil. He hopes to excavate it (OS record 1942).

Cathcart King notes a vanished castle called Burtuna, possibly this Burton, and notes earthworks at Burton which may be evidence for it (King 1983). (PastScape)

The proposed as Stephanic castle of Burtuna attacked in 1147 is variously identified as Black Bourton, Oxon (SP286042) and as Purton, Wilts (SU096872) or Burton Grove Farm, Wilts ( SU191891). All sites are near Cricklade, with which this castle is associated.

Quia cum ad civitatem Cricheladam, et ad municipium, quod Burtuna dicitur, quae tunc regii habebantur juris, quasi interius, sine obstaculo, irrupturi advenissent, hinc, cum dedecore effugati, inde, metu eos abigente, festine fuere propulsi. (Sewell)

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSU191890
Latitude51.6001510620117
Longitude-1.72503995895386
Eastings419140
Northings189070
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Books

  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 501

Journals

Primary Sources

  • Sewell, R.C. (ed), 1846, Gesta Stephani, Regis Anglorum et Ducis Normannorum p. 128 online copy (The newer edition and translation by Potter, K.R. (ed), 1976 (2edn), Gesta Stephani (Oxford University Press) should be consulted for serious study. See also Speight, S., 2000, 'Castle Warfare in the Gesta Stephani' , Château Gaillard Vol. 19 [see online transcription > http://web.archive.org/web/20101229213751/http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/articles/speight.htm])