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Castle Hill is a complex monument near Almondbury in West Yorkshire comprising a multivallate Iron Age hillfort overlain by a Norman motte and bailey castle, with associated settlement remains. The hillfort, defended by multiple concentric earthwork banks and ditches, dates to the pre-Roman period and represents a significant fortified settlement of the late prehistoric Iron Age. The Norman castle, constructed within the hillfort's interior in the eleventh or twelfth century, demonstrates the reuse of earlier defensive positions for medieval settlement. The site also encompasses a deserted village, indicating continuous occupation across multiple periods, making it an important palimpsest of settlement and defensive practices spanning nearly two millennia.
Castle Hill: slight univallate hillfort, small multivallate hillfort, motte and bailey castle and deserted village is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009846. View the official record →
Castle Hill is a complex monument near Almondbury in West Yorkshire comprising a multivallate Iron Age hillfort overlain by a Norman motte and bailey castle, with associated settlement remains. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009846.
Castle Hill: slight univallate hillfort, small multivallate hillfort, motte and bailey castle and deserted village 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 1009846.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Turn Bridge, Quay Street (2.8 km), Cairnfield in Honley Old Wood, 280m north west of The Woodlands (3.4 km), Cairnfield in Hagg Wood, Honley, 375m south east of Upper Hagg (3.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Castle Hill: slight univallate hillfort, small multivallate hillfort, motte and bailey castle and deserted village'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: slight univallate hillfort, small multivallate hillfort, motte and bailey castle and deserted village stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.