The Gatehouse website record for Periwinkle Hill, Barkway

In the civil parish of Barkway. In the historic county of Hertfordshire (Modern Authority of Hertfordshire, 1974 county of Hertfordshire).

Periwinkle Hill. Alleged site of motte and bailey. Aerial photographs and ground inspection are inconclusive, the only visible features being possible building platforms and tracks.
Cropmarks/earthworks of a possible motte and bailey type earthwork. APs show cropmarks and slight earthworks comprising two parallel linear ditches (possibly trackways) leading to a D-shaped enclosure ditch (approx. 80m x 70m) and a vague oval mound (approx. 35m in diameter). Within the enclosure are rectangular subdivisions which could be building steadings. Ploughed annually, the mound survives to a mere 1m high and the enclosure ditch to approx. 30cms deep in 1984. This is supposed to be the castle belonging to the chief manor of Reed. (Hertfordshire HER)

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TL373360

Sources of information, references and further reading

This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 368081
This site's County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number is 855 'grey' literature, such as watching brief reports, held by H.E.R.s is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded in this website.

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