Clements Farm Mound, Miserden

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameClements Farm Mound, Miserden
Alternative NamesNew Seal Wood
Historic CountryGloucestershire
Modern AuthorityGloucestershire
1974 AuthorityGloucestershire
Civil ParishMiserden

Possible Bronze Age bowl barrow, it has also been suggested as a castle mound but is also possibly a spoil tip from a near by quarry. It measures 24m in diameter and up to 4 meters high on the north side. (PastScape)

A conical circular mound thought to be a round barrow or a castle-mound, despite the existence of quarries to the SW, measured 28 paces in diameter by 10ft high in 1960, with a large depression in the centre (O'Neil and Grinsell).

A steep-sided mound approx 50 ft in diameter at the top, which is flat but not quite horizontal, with a deep circular hollow in the centre. There is no surrounding ditch, but the material for the mound may have been taken from a large quarry immediately to the SE (oral information).

As described, the mound is 4.0m high on the N side and 2.5m high on the S where it abuts the lip of an old quarry 50.0m across and 2.0 - 4.0m deep. There is no sign of a ditch around the mound and it is suspiciously like a quarry tip (F1 NVQ 24-MAY-72).

This earthwork mound is visible on aerial photographs. It is more likely that a spoil heap immediately next to a quarry would have an elongated shape rather than a conical one. Tree cover immediately to the south of this earthwork indicated on the first edition OS map dated 1885 may suggest the quarrying is of a later date. The depression at the top of the mound may be the result of an investigation of this mound. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Isolated from settlement, of no apparent strategic value and no evidence of high status features. Can be rejected as a castle.

- Philip Davis

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law

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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSO927103
Latitude51.7917594909668
Longitude-2.10593008995056
Eastings392790
Northings210350
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Journals

  • Rawes, B., 1977, 'A Check List of Castles and other Fortified Sites of Medieval Date in Gloucestershire' Glevensis Vol. 11 p. 39-41 online copy
  • O'Neil, H. and Grinsell, L.V., 1960, 'Gloucestershire Barrows, Lists: Round Barrows, Gloucestershire' Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Vol. 79 Part 1 p. 125 (Barrow or castle mound?) online copy