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