CORBY GLEN: CASTLE MOUND Situated just to the north-east of the
market place in Corby Glen (Fig 54), a large moated site
(Scheduled Monument no 100 ) seems to mark an early defended
manor house. Although described as Castle Mound on recent
Ordnance Survey maps, no trace of an associated bailey has been
found. The earthwork is subrectangular and encloses a raised
centre comprising some 1,000 square metres. There is a low inner
bank along the north, east and southern sides of the mound,
possibly marking the line of a wall, and a shallow outer bank
(Fig 55). The western half of the main moat contained water at
the time of survey and there was also water in a short length of
ditch on the east side of the site beyond the outer bank. This
ditch is 11 metres wide from rim to rim and three metres deep,
and although from its position it appears to be part of the
complex, it has been disturbed. The width of the main moat
varies between 11 to 19 metres from rim to rim and its depth
from five to three metres. At its nort