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Mound South West of Walterstone

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Motte)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

Name	Mound South West of Walterstone
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Herefordshire
Modern Authority	Herefordshire
1974 Authority	Hereford and Worcester
Civil Parish	Walterstone

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)

105743

County Historic Environment Record

htt.herefordshire.gov.uk/her-search/monuments-search/search/monument?smr_no=11843

OS Map Grid Reference	SO338247
Latitude	51.9171485900879
Longitude	-2.96362996101379
Eastings	333820
Northings	224730