What is recorded here

Mortons has no castle, no church tower, no landmark you can point at from a distance. What it has instead is a hole in the ground wide enough to stand inside, with a bridge across it and a road that stops at the edge. The town remembers itself through absence. The missing castle is the shape of the place, the gap is the identity, and every street leads back to the nothing in the middle.

Just below crest of hill on a N-facing slope in gently undulating terrain, in rough pasture. There are good views in all directions except upslope to the S. A circular enclosure (diam. 28.35m N-S; 30.1m E-W) defined by a bank (Wth at crest 1.3-1.4m; overall Wth 2.9-4.5m; int. H 0.3-0.8m; ext. H 0.9-1.2m) and wide, flat-bottomed fosse (Wth 2.4m; D 0.45m). The bank has a very high stone content in places, consisting of small boulders and large stones in a clay matrix. The fosse is evident in SW-S-SE sector, with stone defining the outer edge of the fosse. There is also a slight fosse in the W quadrant where there is a possible entrance (Wth c. 1.8-2m) with a slight causeway (H 0.25m) over the fosse. There is a hawthorn tree growing in the N side of entrance. There are hawthorn trees growing around the complete circuit of the bank. The interior is flat and grass-covered. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 11 September 2018

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