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Castle Hill is a medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway located in Kent, England, and is designated as a heritage monument under the National Heritage List for England (entry 1014864). The site comprises a substantial earthwork fortification typical of the Norman period, featuring a defended enclosure surrounded by a ditch and bank, with an associated outer bailey connected by a causeway. The monument incorporates a prehistoric bowl barrow within its earthworks, indicating that the medieval defensive structure was constructed upon or adjacent to an earlier Bronze Age burial mound. The ringwork and bailey represent a significant example of early medieval military engineering in south-east England, demonstrating the Norman approach to fortification in the post-Conquest period.
Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014864. View the official record →
Castle Hill is a medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway located in Kent, England, and is designated as a heritage monument under the National Heritage List for England (entry 1014864).
Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle Hill 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 1014864.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Martello tower no 4, Cliff Road, Folkestone (2.7 km), Sandgate Castle (3 km), Martello tower no 7, Sandgate, Folkestone (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle Hill'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.
Medieval ringwork with bailey and approach causeway, incorporating a bowl barrow on Castle Hill stands on Grey Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Cenomanian. The rock here is chalk.