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Chirbury Kings Orchard
In the civil parish of Chirbury With Brompton.
In the historic county of Shropshire (Modern Authority of Shropshire, 1974 county of Shropshire).
PastScape records as "The remains of a ringwork, field bank and ridge and furrow of probable medieval or later date." King writes saxon burg of Cyricbyrig. Excavated in 1958 and no dating evidence found. Chirbury apparently always held in demense along with Montgomery and therefore an unlikely site for a castle. My impression was that of a massive bank in front of the river to the west of the town. The monument is a long bank on both sides of the road, but a roughly 190ft square area to the north of the road has been delimited by a scarp, and in places, a faint bank. I would suggest the square area may possible be an attempt at a castle using part of a pre-existing earthwork (or it may just be a simple enclosure for an orchard) but that fundamentally this monument is the recorded Saxon burghal defence (qv).
This site has been described as a;
Timber Castle
Urban Defence.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Earthworks remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO25809857
PastScape number;
105511
Books
- Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p87 [slight]
Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries)
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p435 [reject]
Rees, W., 1933, Historical map of South Wales and the Borders in the C14
Oman, Charles W.C., 1926, Castles (1978 edn Beetham House: New York) p134
Wall [after Downham], 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Shropshire Vol1 p378-9 [plan]
MacLeod, n.d. c.1890, History of Chirbury p8 and plate
Journal Articles
- King, D.J.C. and Spurgeon, C.J., 1965, ‘The mottes in the Vale of Montgomery’ Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol114 p78
Wainwright, F.T., 1960 Feb, Shropshire Archaeological Society newsletter Vol10
Renn, D.F., 1959, 'Mottes: a classification' Antiquity Vol33 p106-12
1958, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol56 p5
Chitty, Lily, 1949, 'Subsidiary Castle Sites West of Shrewsbury' Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society Vol53 p83-90
Macleod, Flora A., 1906, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol6 p228, 234
Clark, G.T., 1877, Montgomeryshire Collections Vol10 p335-6
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