Description1. A rectilinear earthwork complex, c.174m NE-SW by 77m, set immediately NW of the buildings known as 'Buck Hall'; these features occupy the NW slopes and bottom of a minor NE-SW valley & consist of a series of rectilinear enclosures/areas, defined by scarps & possibly other earthwork features, the largest such area, 55m NE-SW by 34m, lying immediately adjacent to the buildings; a small pond, within this area, may suggest that some of these features constituted pond bays: c.250m to the SW is the site of an enclosure, or moated site (Nprn401541).
The site's location, high in an upland area, taken together with the name 'Buck Hall', may suggest that it lies within the former area of a deer park; OS County series (Radnor. X.16 1889) depicts individual trees set along the line of the NW limit of the earthworks, which lie within a locally distinctive group of small field enclosures.
RCAHMW AP881324/6,8
J.Wiles 13.10.04
2. The site is recogniseable from the OS 25 inch plans 1889 and 1903. By the latter, one of the three component dividing hedges has been removed on the E. There is an infilled pond on the rough grazing to the NW. It has been suggested that the site's enclosures may have been early gardens (C.S.Briggs in Garden Archaeology 1991).
C.S.Briggs 31.01.06
3. Depicted on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map of Radnorshire X, sheet 16 (1903). C.H. Nicholas, RCAHMW, 25th August 2006.