Scraptoft; The Mount

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are earthwork remains

NameScraptoft; The Mount
Alternative Names
Historic CountryLeicestershire
Modern AuthorityLeicestershire
1974 AuthorityLeicestershire
Civil ParishScraptoft

A small truncated conical mount with a depressed top containing an ornamental chamber, marked on the 1781 estate map. It is a prospect mound that used to have a gazebo on top of it. (Leicestershire and Rutland HER)

Grotto. Later Cl8. Red brick, lined with coursed squared stone and shell work incorporating chrystaline stone. Rectangular plan, c3m x 2m, with stone work inside like a plinth. Above is the shell work on walls. On the simple quadrapartite shallow vault this forms a vaulting pattern. (Listed Building Report)

Gatehouse Comments

Supposed motte, no bailey. Mutilated by insertion of C18 icehouse. McWhirr and Winter suggested was only ever a garden feature. Creighton writes is post medieval prospect mound. PastScape record as not an antiquity. Listed as a grotto. Isolated from medieval settlement and nothing suggests this was a pre-exisitng mound adapted as a garden feature.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
Images Of England
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceSK653058
Latitude52.6465797424316
Longitude-1.03543996810913
Eastings465360
Northings305870
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Books

  • Knox, Richard, 2015, 'The medieval fortified sites of Leicestershire and Rutland' in Medieval Leicestershire: Recent research on the Medieval Archaeology of Leicester (Liecestershire Fieldworks 3) p. 123-42
  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 43
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 255
  • Wall, C., 1907, 'Ancient Earthworks' in Page, Wm, (ed), VCH Leicestershire Vol. 1 p. 257 online copy

Journals

  • Creighton, O.H., 1997, 'Early Leicestershire Castles: Archaeology and Landscape History' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 71 p. 27-9 online copy
  • McWhirr, A.D. and Winter, M.J., 1978-79, 'Medieval Castles Additional Information' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 54 p. 74-75 online copy
  • Cantor, Leonard, 1977-8, 'The Medieval Castles of Leicestershire' Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol. 53 p. 39 online copy

Other

  • Creighton, O.H., 1998, Castles and Landscapes: An Archaeological Survey of Yorkshire and the East Midlands (PhD Thesis University of Leicester) p. 68, 74, 94, 397-8 online copy