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<< Text Pages >> Sherrington Motte - Artificial Mound in England in Wiltshire

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Multi-periodSite Name: Sherrington Motte
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 1.1 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Wiltshire Type: Artificial Mound
 Nearest Village: Sherrington
Map Ref: ST96003923
Latitude: 51.152313N  Longitude: 2.05857W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4

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The Norman castle of the Giffords, at Sherrington has no visible remains of masonry. This motte is 48m across and rises 5.5m above a 3.5m deep ditch, which widens in the east to form a water-filled moat.

The Sherrington Castle mound survives well and has potential for the recovery of both archaeological remains and environmental evidence relating to the landscape at the time the site was occupied. Research work is due to start in the near future.

The suspicion is that the motte could have prehistoric origins as a mound similar to Silbury Hill and the Marlborough Mound..

More at Gatehouse Gazetteer.

See also the 'suspicious' mottes at Hampton Marshall.
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ST9639 : St Cosmos and St Damian Church by Maigheach-gheal
by Maigheach-gheal
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ST9639 : The Church of St Cosmas and St Damian at Sherrington by Maigheach-gheal
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©2007(licence)
ST9639 : Font at St Cosmas and St Damian Church by Maigheach-gheal
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©2007(licence)
ST9639 : Stained glass window at St Cosmas and St Damian Church by Maigheach-gheal
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©2007(licence)
ST9639 : The Church of St Cosmas and St Damian by Maigheach-gheal
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