Redoubt, earthwork, 180ft E of the present Great N Road, lies in a flat meadow on the N bank of a brook immediately NE of the pavillion in the Brewery Sports Ground. It is a square embanked enclosure, the side measuring 55ft along the centre of the bank, with traces of an external ditch on the N and W. A ditch may have existed on the E but this side is obscured by a modern field boundary; there was probably no ditch on the S side facing the brook. At the SW angle the bank was widened internally to form a square platform; this angle pointed across the approach from Newark along the old Great N Road. Clampe shows a cannon in one corner (orientation seems wrong) and entrance on the N side. (1)
A Parliamentary redoubt shown on contemporary maps consisting of a banked enclosure, 55ft square. (2)
The remains of a Civil War redoubt now under rough pasture but obviously farmed over for many years. In plan the work is a subrectangular enclosure covering c 1/5 acre; structurally it now consists of a single rampart with, in places, an accompanying ditch. In the SW corner of the enclosure is a raised platform (doubtless for a single canon). Topographically the work is situate on a low lying plain with excellent all round visibility and commanding of the Newark line of march. (3)
Redoubt earthwork situated in the SE corner of a flat field with traces of an external ditch on the N and W sides. The stream providing the defence for S side, and the field boundary obscuring the ditch on the E side. (4)

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

(1), Arch office

<1> RCHM, 1964, Newark on Trent - The Civil War Siegeworks, pp 44-5 (Published document). SNT1176.

<2> DOE, AM7 - undated, no author (Unpublished document). SNT52.

<3> Colquhoun FD, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT582.

<4> Dodd A, 1988, AM107 (Unpublished document). SNT620.

<5> Kinsley G, 1989, Newark's Archaeological Resource, App 1, pp 2-3 (Unpublished document). SNT40.

<6> EMAB eds, 1958, East Midlands Archaeological Bulletin, p 10 (Published document). SNT152.