The Gatehouse website record for Rise Mote Hill

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Moat Hill; Blackhall Hill

In the civil parish of Rise. In the historic county of Yorkshire East Riding (Modern Authority of East Riding of Yorkshire, 1974 county of Humberside).

PastScape report reads "A flat-topped and steeply scarped natural hillock measuring about 40m north-south by 26m east-west and is up to 3m in height. It is thought to be a moot or meeting place rather than an actual motte. Also reported to be the site of a lodge." Rise was a manor granted to Franco de Fauconberg after Conquest but was not an important preConquest site so a moot hill seems unlikely to me. The earthworks are complex and include mounds but nothing resembling even a mutilated motte. The roughly rectangular mound has been cut from the hill side to form a pseudo moated site. I suspect the main manor house was at the Rise Hall on higher land to the east of the parish church. This may represent the site of a sub manor.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TA146417

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 80743
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