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Castle Hill motte and bailey castle is a Norman fortification located in Huntingdonshire, England, and represents the characteristic military architecture of the post-Conquest period. The monument consists of a substantial earthwork comprising a motte, or artificial mound, accompanied by an attached bailey, or defended enclosure, which would have been surrounded by palisades and ditches in its original form. Dating to the eleventh or twelfth century, the castle reflects the Norman practice of constructing rapid defensive structures to consolidate control following the Norman conquest of 1066. The site survives today as a significant archaeological earthwork that demonstrates the scale and engineering involved in early medieval castle construction in the English Midlands.
Castle Hill motte and bailey castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1015198. View the official record →
Castle Hill motte and bailey castle is a Norman fortification located in Huntingdonshire, England, and represents the characteristic military architecture of the post-Conquest period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1015198.
Castle Hill motte and bailey castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1015198.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Monk's Hole barrow, 630m NNE of Monk's Wood Farm (3.5 km), Duck Decoy site in Hermitage Wood (5.1 km), Moated site at Coppingford (5.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Castle Hill motte and bailey castle's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Castle Hill motte and bailey castle stands on Kellaways Formation And Oxford Clay Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Oxfordian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.