Undated Mound at Motslow Hill
Sandpit, Motslow Hill, 2017.
Image courtesy of William Arnold
An oak on the edge of the pit on Motslow Hill might indicate that it is not modern.
Image courtesy of William Arnold
The well known stone quarry above Motslow Hill cottages.
Image courtesy of William Arnold
The path to the summit of Motslow Hill
Image courtesy of William Arnold
The stone quarry at Motslow Hill.
Image courtesy of William Arnold
Description of this historic site
The site of a mound which is visible as an earthwork. The mound may have been the Post Medieval meeting place of the hundred of Motslow. It is situated 400m south of Stoneleigh.
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Notes about this historic site
1 A mound at SP33077235 is likely to be the Hundred mound of Motslow.
2On modern OS maps this is shown as a quarry.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
Crossing the Sowe by Motslow Hill cottages, you ascend a track that is cut into the hillside on your left. At the top is a stone quarry inhabited, if we are to believe the sign on the barbed wire by “private sheep”. Treading carefully so as not to disturb the sheep’s privacy you climb leftwards and upwards admiring the panoramic view of Stoneleigh.
At the highest point you are faced with a wide overgrown hollow. This unremarked feature may be an ancient or more modern sand(?) gravel pit, as geological mapping shows the summit to be sand and gravel; this overlies the sandstone formations that were quarried further down. Indeed the path up to Motslow Hill must have been quarried out if not worn down by endless feet going to attend the moot court on Motslow Hill.
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