Earthwork east of St Helen's Well

Has been described as a Rejected Timber Castle (Ringwork)

There are cropmark/slight earthwork remains

NameEarthwork east of St Helen's Well
Alternative Names
Historic CountryLincolnshire
Modern AuthorityLincolnshire
1974 AuthorityLincolnshire
Civil ParishBigby

In Lincolnshire HER as undated ringwork.

A sub circular enclosure circa 70 to 80 metres in diameter was recorded as a slight earthwork on air photographs taken in 1976. Sinuous linear features adjacent to the north side may be hollow ways. The enclosure was recorded in 1929 by the Ordnance Survey as an earthwork with a bank circa 2 feet high and 4 feet wide and a ditch about 1.5 feet deep. No entrance was apparent. The site was ploughed and/or levelled in 1962/3, and fieldwalking at the time produced no finds. Its date is therefore uncertain. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Ringwork is a term supposedly reserved for medieval ringwork castles but is used for other circular archaeological feature at times. This sites appears to described as a Roman stock enclosure or post medieval quarry but certainly is not a medieval site of any description.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceTA019076
Latitude53.5554389953613
Longitude-0.461919993162155
Eastings501970
Northings407620
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Books

  • Everson, P.L., Taylor, C.C. and Dunn, C.J., 1991, Change and Continuity: Rural Settlement in North-West Lincolnshire p. vi