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Keep of Tote Copse castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey fortification located near Decoy Farmhouse in Sussex, England. The site comprises an earthwork castle of twelfth-century date, with the characteristic mound and ditch construction typical of early Norman military architecture in England following the Conquest. The keep itself represents a significant example of the rapid fortification of the Sussex landscape during the early Norman period, when such structures served as defensive and administrative centres for the consolidation of Norman territorial control. The monument remains substantially preserved as earthworks, constituting an important archaeological record of Norman settlement and military organisation in the South of England.
Keep of Tote Copse castle, 400m north of Decoy Farmhouse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1012180. View the official record →
Keep of Tote Copse castle is a Norman motte-and-bailey fortification located near Decoy Farmhouse in Sussex, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1012180.
Keep of Tote Copse castle, 400m north of Decoy Farmhouse 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 1012180.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman amphitheatre (5.6 km), Chichester City Walls, The Tower, Orchard Street (5.9 km), Chichester Dyke, earthwork extending N 360yds (330m) from Otter Memorial College (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Keep of Tote Copse castle, 400m north of Decoy Farmhouse'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.
Keep of Tote Copse castle, 400m north of Decoy Farmhouse stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.