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Burlton Pic Hill

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are no visible remains

Name	Burlton Pic Hill
Alternative Names	Pickhill
Historic Country	Shropshire
Modern Authority	Shropshire
1974 Authority	Shropshire
Civil Parish	Loppington

near the village of Burlton (Salop), there are a succession of rings, which one might compare to the lower half of Picts' houses, extending to a considerable distance over old pasture, and throughout an enclosure which can be proved to have been forest for centuries, and is thought to be identical with a Domesday "silva" in that place. The hill that rises above these curious depressions, which seem to resemble those at Worlebury, near Weston-super-Mare, is called Pic Hill. As this word occurs in Bangor Isycoed, with a Tower Field close by, it would seem to indicate a Saxon tower so placed as to keep guard over a British village or town. (Lee, 1877)

Gatehouse Comments

In the concepts of the time a 'Saxon' tower was what we now call a motte. Pickhill is a farmstead at SJ45252594 but the local high point is at SJ450259. Nothing archaeological is recorded in the NMR or Shropshire HER near these locations. However, the description given by Lee may fit Petton Castle mound at SJ44102623, 1.5km west of Pickhill although it is difficult to see any reason for Lee not identifying this as Petton if that is what he meant.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

www.shropshire.gov.uk/environment.nsf/open/EFB51FA78F5BDBF08025755A00696695

OS Map Grid Reference	SJ450259
Latitude	52.8281898498535
Longitude	-2.81399989128113
Eastings	345000
Northings	325900