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Hartshill Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification located in Warwickshire, dating to the Norman period following the conquest of 1066. The castle comprises an earthwork mound surrounded by a ditch, typical of early Norman military architecture, with evidence of timber fortifications that would have crowned the motte. Its strategic position reflects the Norman policy of controlling the English landscape through a network of such fortified sites, though the castle appears never to have developed into a substantial stone structure. The site remains archaeologically significant as an example of Norman defensive engineering preserved as earthworks in the Warwickshire landscape.
Hartshill Castle is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1011197. View the official record →
Hartshill Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification located in Warwickshire, dating to the Norman period following the conquest of 1066. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1011197.
Hartshill 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 1011197.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 580m east of Moor Wood Farm (0.8 km), Oldbury Camp univallate hillfort (1.2 km), Manduessedum Roman villa and settlement with associated industrial complex (2.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hartshill 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.
Hartshill Castle stands on Middle Cambrian, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.