Site Event/Activity record ECH7159 - Field Observation on SJ 56 NW 11

A probable small motte, situated upon a low ridge south of Ashton. The earthwork , 30.0m in diameter at the base, 1.2m high, with a flat top, 14. 0m across, has been reduced and spread by ploughing and has been cut into on the north by farmyard walls. There are no traces of a periphery bank and Webster's and Thompson's ring-motte classification cannot be substantiated. A scarp, 0.6 to 0.8m high, 20.0m south of the mound, may possibly represent the outer lip of a ditch but is more likely to be natural. Published 1:2500 survey, 1970, correct. [ASP 06/09/1976]