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Earthwork comprising a scarped natural hillock, now wooded, with an earthen rampart round its summit, and a ditch with denuded outer rampart round its base. The sides of the hillock have been steepened, the top levelled and the material has been used in the construciton of the massive rampart around the rim. The entrance in the northeast is determined by a 2.5m break in the rampart which is opposite a 3.5m wide causeway across the ditch. Another break, about 3m wide in the southwest, appears to be for drainage purposes and is probably of a later period. The ditch varies in width from 11m in the north, at the easiest approach where it is best preserved, to about 4m in the south, where it is represented by a mere terrace. The outer rampart is ploughed out in the northeast and is mutilated by trees and soil slip elsewhere. In the northwest a capping of stones is due to a ruinous modern wall which has surmounted it. This earthwork has no local parallel but bears a strong similarity to a 13/14th century earthwork called 'The Mount-'at Cheswick Green, Birmingham and the 'Green Castle' at Wooler. It is probably the remains of an early-medieval castle (RCAHMS). Measures 65m by 35m externally.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)