HER 25 - Alleged Castle Mound, Ockley.

Pond Bay (alleged castle mound). Possibly a small castle of the De Clares, dismantled by Henry II. Identified by Aubrey in the 17th century as the moated mound of a castle. It is a pear-shaped enclosure, nearly 300 ft long, with the broader end to the east where there is an irregular-shaped mound with an extension thrown back at a right angle to face north. Outside this north-eastern angle is a platform with traces of an external ditch. The southern side is bounded by a stream in an artificially straightened ravine, and the eastern front may have been covered by an inundation. There are traces of a ditch on the northern side and in the angle where this joins the stream to the west are traces of a small mound. West of this angle are traces of an artificial bank, perhaps to make another inundation.

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