East Castle

Heritage listing

Details This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 21 September 2015. This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not reviewed under the Monuments Protection Programme and are some of our oldest designation records. This monument includes an Iron Age or Romano-British enclosed farmstead situated on the north facing upper slopes of a prominent ridge between two dry valleys overlooking the distant Wylye Valley. The enclosed farmstead survives as a roughly circular enclosure measuring approximately 50m in diameter internally and defined by a rampart bank of 4m wide and 0.5m high, a narrow berm and an outer ditch of up to 4m wide and 0.5m deep. To the east is a simple gap entrance with a causeway across the ditch. Within the interior to the south west is a circular mound of some 10m in diameter and 0.7m high surrounded by traces of a ditch which was excavated by Colt Hoare and produced some pottery and a bone pin. At the time of excavation it was thought this was a bowl barrow, but it now seems more likely to have been a round house given the lack of an interment. Further archaeological remains survive in the vicinity some are scheduled separately whilst others are not included because they have not been formally assessed. Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: WI 446 Legacy System: RSM - OCN

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.