Huntingdon Mill Common

Has been described as a Possible Siege Work

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameHuntingdon Mill Common
Alternative NamesNoui Cast' de Hunted'
Historic CountryHuntingdonshire
Modern AuthorityCambridgeshire
1974 AuthorityCambridgeshire
Civil ParishHuntingdon

Excavations uncovered the site of a Roman villa; it consisted of late 2nd century AD timber building which was replaced by a 3rd-4th century AD corridor villa. This was succeeded by an Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery and probable church. The assumed remains of the siege castle of 1174 were also uncovered and the remains of a medieval church/chapel which incorporated fragments of the Anglo-Saxon structure. (PastScape)

Mound which has been identified with the siege-castle built before Huntingdon in 1174. Timber revetment of this period has been revealed by excavation. (KIng 1983)

In the later C12 the mound was put into a state of defence possibly as part of the preparation for the siege of Huntingdon Castle in 1172 (sic). To this end the sides of the mound were given a vertical timber revetment. (Med. Arch. 1968)

Gatehouse Comments

May be the novi Cast' de Hunted' where works are recorded in the_Pipe Roll_ of 1174.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTL236713
Latitude52.3265914916992
Longitude-0.18690000474453
Eastings523660
Northings271380
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Books

  • Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 13
  • Higham, R. and Barker, P., 1992, Timber Castles (Batsford) p. 133, 134, 355
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 225 (possible)
  • Renn, D.F., 1973 (2 edn.), Norman Castles of Britain (London: John Baker) p. 207
  • Page, Wm, Proby, Granville, and Ladds, S. Inskip (eds), 1932, VCH Huntingdonshire Vol. 2 p. 130
  • Inskip Ladds, S., 1926, in Page, Wm and Proby, Granville (eds), VCH Huntingdonshire Vol. 1 p. 288, 290 view unattributed online copy

Journals

  • Fradley, M., 2010, 'Earthwork survey at Huntingdon Mill Common' Proceedings of the Cambridgeshire Antiquarian Society Vol. 99 p. 89-96
  • Rudd, G., 1969, CBA Group 7: Bulletin of Archaeological discoveries Vol. 16 p. 3
  • (Davison), 1968, Medieval Archaeology Vol. 12 p. 175 download copy
  • Rudd, G., 1968, CBA Group 7: Bulletin of Archaeological discoveries Vol. 15 p. 2-3
  • Wilson, D. and Hurst, J.G.. 1968, Medieval Archaeology Vol. 12 download copy
  • Dickinson, P., 1967, CBA Group 7: Bulletin of Archaeological discoveries Vol. 14 p. 2-3
  • Brown, R. Allen, 1959, 'A List of Castles, 1154–1216' English Historical Review Vol. 74 p. 249-280 (Reprinted in Brown, R. Allen, 1989, Castles, conquest and charters: collected papers (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 90-121) view online copy (subscription required) p. 252n40
  • Renn, D.F., 1959, 'Mottes: a classification' Antiquity Vol. 33 p. 106-12 (listed as siegework)

Primary Sources

  • Stubbs, Wm. (ed), 1876, Radulphi de Diceto decani Lundoniensis Opera Historica. The Historical work of Master Ralph de Diceto, Dean of London (London, Rolls Series 68) Vol. 1 p. 404
  • Studds, Wm (ed), 1867, Gesta regis Henrici Secundi Benedicti abbatis: The chronicle of the reigns of Henry II. and Richard I. A.D. 1169-1192; known commonly under the name of Benedict of Peterborough (London, Rolls Series 49) Vol. 1 p. 70-1 online transcription
  • 1896, The Great Roll of the Pipe for the twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the Second, A.D. 1173-1174 (Pipe Roll Society Publications 21) p. 63 online copy

Other

  • Cambridgeshire Extensive Urban Survey: Huntingdon. Draft Report 04/05/2004. online copy