Monument record MDO38751 - Medieval or later pillow mound, Coney's Castle, Whitchurch Canonicorum

A medieval or post medieval pillow mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs to the north of Coneys Castle hillfort, the name of which could indicate a long history of rabbit farming on the hilltop. This monument consists of an earthwork mound surrounded by an outer ditch. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

A medieval or post medieval pillow mound is visible as an earthwork on aerial photographs to the north of Coneys Castle hillfort (1-3). It comprises an earthwork mound 29m by 5m, oriented roughly east-west and surrounded by an outer ditch. The site was digitally plotted during the Marshwood Vale NMP.

The mound is overlain by a post medieval field boundary which is also visible as a narrow earthwork bank and is marked on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. <4>

<1> Royal Air Force, 11-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1974 FP 1414-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14808.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 05MAR-2000, OS/00978 V 0043-4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO14811.

<3> National Monuments Record, 16-FEB-2005, NMR 23812/12-4 (NMR SY 3797/20-2) (Aerial Photograph). SDO14812.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1458512 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 20 2021 6:51PM