Mound South West of Walterstone

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameMound South West of Walterstone
Alternative Names
Historic CountryHerefordshire
Modern AuthorityHerefordshire
1974 AuthorityHereford and Worcester
Civil ParishWalterstone

Mound 290 yds SW of Walterstone church, is roughly round, 21ft in diameter and 2 1/2ft high in the middle (RCHME). A ploughed-down mound situated on the top of a broad ridge at SO33832484, is turf-covered and measures 8.0m in diameter, and up to 0.3m high. The remains are too nebulous for a positive interpretation to be made (Field Investigators Comments F1 DRB 05-NOV-73). (PastScape)

Cottage & garden underlet to Barnabas Gwatkin. Old House meadow is field to W (Walterstone Tithe Award). (Herefordshire SMR)

The RCHM mention a mound, some 200m south-south-west of the motte, 6m in diameter and 07m high (SO337 247). It is probably a round barrow rather than a castle. (Shoesmith)

Gatehouse Comments

Nothing is shown on the 1882 OS map (either as mound or cottage) although two footpaths converge at the map reference. Whatever this mound is, and Gatehouse suspects it is the overgrown ruins of a cottage rather than a barrow, it is not a castle.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSO338247
Latitude51.9171485900879
Longitude-2.96362996101379
Eastings333820
Northings224730
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Books

  • Shoesmith, Ron, 2009 (Rev edn.), Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire (Logaston Press) p. 275
  • RCHME, 1931, An inventory of the historical monuments in Herefordshire Vol. 1: south-west p. 248 no. 10 online transcription