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Titley Shawl Field

Has been described as a Possible Timber Castle (Motte)

There are earthwork remains

Name	Titley Shawl Field
Alternative Names	Titley Court
Historic Country	Herefordshire
Modern Authority	Herefordshire
1974 Authority	Hereford and Worcester
Civil Parish	Titley

Ploughed 15 acre field. Lumpy landscape with moraine hills, one of which appears to have been turned into a motte app. 63 yds long, 32 yds wide and 20 to 30 feet high at highest. It is the small curved earthwork at the northern end which gives it away as man made. Most medieval sherds not very eroded so field is not often ploughed. Some Med and Late Med sherds probably not contemporary with motte. 1 gun flint. Curious there were no prehistoric flints because of proximity of carved standing stone at Titley Kennels, 100 yds away to the S. (Herefordshire SMR)

Gatehouse Comments

Close to C17 Titley Court, the manor house. Other end of reduced medieval village from church and site of medieval Priory. Adjacent to Deer Park. The location is certainly possible as a precursor site to Titley Court (perhaps relocated to more convenient flat land) but morainic land forms are notoriously difficult to distinguish from eroded man made earthworks so, despite of the apparent confidence of the Herefordshire SMR report, some question may remain. Clearly what ever is here is not so like a motte as to catch the attention of earlier writers and surveys.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/monument?smr_no=21800

OS Map Grid Reference	SO330596
Latitude	52.2309799194336
Longitude	-2.98240995407104
Eastings	333000
Northings	259650