Panpudding Hill

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Pampudding Hill; Oldbury

In the civil parish of Bridgnorth.
In the historic county of Shropshire (Modern Authority of Shropshire, 1974 county of Shropshire).

Ringwork and bailey on Panpudding Hill, possibly built in 1102. Site used during the Civil War as a battery. The motte measures 50m in diameter and is partly encircled by a flat topped bank, 0.9m high and up to 12m wide. The bottom of the ditch which separates it from the bailey to the west is 3.3m below the top of the bank and 0.7m below the level of the bailey. The triangular bailey, defined by scarp slopes to the north and south, measures 50m in length and 30m in width adjacent to the motte. There are traces of a bank 0.8m high, and a ditch 0.6m deep, at the west end. Siege Castle (of Bridgnorth) of 1102, probably reused in siege of 1155 and possibly also in the sieges of 1321 and 1646.

This site has been described as a;
Siege Work.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Earthworks remains.

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO71549248

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; 114671

• Web site links
  • http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/2001bri.html#siege
• Books
  • Salter, Mike, 2001 (2edn), The Castles and Moated Mansions of Shropshire (Malvern) p25
    Salter, Mike, 1993, Midlands Castles (Birmingham) p33
    Jackson, M.J.,1988, Castles of Shropshire (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries) p7
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p427
    Wall [after Downham], 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Shropshire Vol1 p398
    Clark, G.T., 1884, Medieval Military Architecture in England  (Wyman and Sons) Vol1 p273-83
• Journal Articles
  • King, D.J.C. and Alcock, L., 1969, 'Ringworks in England and Wales' Château Gaillard Vol3 p90-127
    Renn, D.F., 1959, 'Mottes: a classification' Antiquity Vol33 p106-12 [listed as seigework]
    W Watkins-Pitchford, 1947-8, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society Vol52 p167
    Clark, G.T., 1874, Archaeologia Cambrensis [ser4] Vol5 p274 [reprinted in MMA]