HER 707 - Norman Motte or Ringwork, Cranleigh

Scheduled Monument
An early Norman castle mound in Broomhall Copse, on the Surrey border near Rudgewick. Excavated by Winbolt in 1928. The mound which is planted with hazel and birch is 89ft in diameter (to centre of ditch), 3ft high and has a flat top. Cross trenches were dug at right angles 5ft down to undisturbed clay, and produced three pieces of early Norman green glaze pottery, a great many fragments of red floor tiles, and a considerable amount of charcoal. There are remains of a metalled causeway some 7ft wide. A ditched mound described as possibly a motte but very small and weak. It is situated upon the highest part of a hill within a wood, is itself tree covered and is in fair to good condition.

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