Possible motte and bailey. An irregular mound, the top of which adjoins the road. Mound has a wet ditch on the south-west and west and there is the possiblity of an associated bailey in a field to the west. In 1992 the Woolhope naturalist field Club described it as a motte formed by cutting a great ditch across the end of the ridge with the bottom of the cutting now carrying the modern road. The mound has a wet ditch fed by springs with slight traces of a former dam. In the small paddock adjoining the site appears to be be the partially robbed out foundations trench of a substantial wall. The buried stonework in the trench is up to 6 ft thick. there is more buried stonework in the paddock. This site may be that of a fortified dwelling or just a former farmhouse site. It has many of the features associated with other fortified sites in the area, such as fishponds, wet ditches and stonework.

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Name	Chickward Mound 1
Alternative Names	Chirkward 1
Historic County	Herefordshire
Civil Parish	Huntington
Type	Fortified Manor House Timber Castle
Confidence	Possible
Remains	Cropmarks/slight earthworks
Listed	Not listed
Scheduled Ancient Monument	No
Ordnance Survey Reference	SO287535
Eastings	328700
Northing	253500
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Historic Environment Record	33732

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Books

• Salter, Mike, 2000, Castles of Herefordshire and Worcestershire (Malvern) p46
• Shoesmith, Ron, 1996, Castles and Moated Sites of Herefordshire (Logaston Press)

Journals

• Halliwell, P.R. (ed), 1992, Herefordshire Archaeological News Vol57, 44