Garway Hill Common Enclosure

In the civil parish of Garway.
In the historic county of Herefordshire (Modern Authority of Herefordshire, 1974 county of Hereford and Worcester).

Sub-rectangular enclosure, possibly Iron Age in date, on Garway Hill Common. Field investigations in 1972 found it surviving as an earthwork with rounded corners and sides 50m in length. it comprised a bank up to 1m in height above an outer ditch 0.3m in depth. The earthworks were badly mutilated on the south side but reasonably well preserved elsewhere. The east side was slightly convex, and had an entrance at its centre, now mutilated by a modern track. Two breaks in the ramparts near the northwest and southwest corners were caused by a modern field bank which continued to the south as a possible trackway. There were no remains of structures within the enclosure. May have had medieval use. Isolated from medieval settlement. Doubtful in my view.

This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Questionable.
Cropmarks/slight earthworks remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO44232492

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 107748

County Sites and Monuments Record number; 6251

• Web site links
  • http://www.smr.herefordshire.gov.uk/db.php?smr_no=6251
• Books
  • Shoesmith, Ron, 1996, Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire (Logaston Press)
• Journal Articles
  • Kay, R., 1967, 'Three unrecorded earthworks from S W Herefordshire' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club Vol39 p41-3