Wiltshire and Swindon Sites and Monument Record Information

SMR Number

SU27SW451

Site Name

Lewisham Castle

Grid Ref

SU24367385

Parish

Aldbourne

Photographs

Images for Aldbourne (if available)

District

Kennet

Site Type

Ringwork

Period

Late Medieval

Scheduled Monument

SM30286

Finds

Ceramics

X Y Grid Ref

424360, 173850

Altitude

213.36 metres

Geology

Upper Chalk

Description

Small ringwork type Medieval castle.

Details

A)A ringwork type castle enclosing 1 acre. B)Large quantity of flint nodules, iron arrowheads & Medieval pottery found by Owen Meyrick. C)An elliptical embanked platform with an external ditch interpreted as a ringwork. The platform measures a maximum of 36m east to west internally. Both the bank and the broad 'V' - shaped ditch enclosing the platform are more pronounced on the northern and western sides, where the ditch is a maximum of 2m in depth and 9m in width at its top, and the bank up to 9m in width and 2.5m in height. A widening of the ditch on the north western side is thought to be due to slumping whilst a slight ridge against its outer lip to the west indicates the remains of a counterscarp bank. A break in the band and ditch on the south eastern edge of the platform possibly comprises the original entrance and a sub-circular bulge constructed of flint nodules on the inner side of the northern bank is thought to represent the foundation for a structure.

Sources

Victoria County History 1 1 261 1957 Grinsell, L.V.

Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine Vol 2, p126-9

Devizes Museum 1984 100.66a 1984 Devizes Museum; Meyrick, Owen

Archaeological Review vol 4, p58

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