Great Hunthouse Mound, Longtown
Has been described as a Questionable Timber Castle (Motte)
There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains
Name | Great Hunthouse Mound, Longtown |
Alternative Names | |
Historic Country | Herefordshire |
Modern Authority | Herefordshire |
1974 Authority | Hereford and Worcester |
Civil Parish | Longtown |
"A mound, on the SE border of Longtown parish and 250 yds SSW of Great Hunthouse, is roughly oval and partly artificial, about 1/4 acre in extent, including the defences. It has a flat top and is surrounded by a dry ditch, except on the NE and E. Where the scarp abuts on a small stream and on the SW where the ditch is filled in. There are traces of an inner rampart on the W" (RCHME). (Cannot identify on available AP's (RAF 1946)). (The feature has been ploughed out. Its site is vaguely marked by a rise of ground in a generally hummocky arable field, at present under pasture. (Field Investigators Comments–F1 ASP 31-AUG-72) The mound could not be found during field survey by the Woolhope Archaeological Society. (Shoesmith). (PastScape)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | SO343261 |
Latitude | 51.9301414489746 |
Longitude | -2.9558699131012 |
Eastings | 334300 |
Northings | 226100 |