Mursley Mount Pleasant Field

Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)

There are earthwork remains

NameMursley Mount Pleasant Field
Alternative Names
Historic CountryBuckinghamshire
Modern AuthorityBuckinghamshire
1974 AuthorityBuckinghamshire
Civil ParishMursley

Mound, suggested as a possible motte in Bucks HER. 21m by 22m diameter 1.5m high. C13/C14 sherds found here. Excavations exposed foundations of a stone mill, and in the surrounding ditch were millstone, building rubble and 14c sherds. Some of the stones were reddened, suggesting destruction by fire. Considered to be C13 Mill mound. (PastScape–ref. Griffiths).

Gatehouse Comments

Outside village on hill top. A moat in the village looks like a medieval manorial centre, but apparently there were 3 manors in the parish so perhaps this was a symbolic mound to assert a claim and later reused as a mill although it most likely just a windmill mound from the start.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSP823289
Latitude51.9532508850098
Longitude-0.803780019283295
Eastings482310
Northings228990
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Books

  • Page, Wm (ed), 1925, VCH Buckinghamshire Vol. 3 p. 402-3 online transcription
  • RCHME, 1913, An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire Vol. 2 (north) p. 206 online copy

Journals

  • Griffiths, R.W., 1969, Wolverton and district Archaeological Society Journal Vol. 2 p. 59-60 (excavation report)
  • 1967, Wolverton and district Archaeological Society Newsletter Vol. 11 p. 10
  • 1966, Records of Buckinghamshire Vol. 18 p. 89