Combe comes from the Old English word 'cumb' which means 'short, narrow valley'. (Herefordshire Place Names - Copleston-Crow, BAR  British Series 214, 1989)

	On the Western border of the county lies a mound 20m in diameter and 1.6m above the surrounding dry ditch. It sits on marshy ground to the south of the Hindwell Brook close to where it joins the River Lugg.The mound is much mutilated and rises 1.6m above the ditch 1.1m deep. It has a flat top with a diameter 20m across. The ditches are now much silted up due to regular flooding.
© Paul Wood

From the entrance to the site the mound appears to be very unimpressive, but on moving closer it is clear that there is a ditch around the site but that the top of the motte is almost level with the ground on the other side of the ditch.

A channel appears to have once run from the brook on the north of the site to the ditches. This would have once ensured that the ditches were wet but now means that when the river floods the water runs down this channel and into the ditches causing them to become silted up. The area was a member of the marcher Lordship of Stapleton, which the Lord of Richards Castle, Osbern fitzRichard, set up on several waste manors in 1086. It was possibly a ditched house platform of medieval date similar to nearby Monk’s Court at Eardisland.

All the marcher Lordships of Stapleton mentioned in the Domesday Book can be identified with modern places except one, Querentune.  As Combe is known to belong to this marcher Lordship but has not been identified as any other place metioned in the Domesday Book, it is likely that this motte at Combe represents Querentune.