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I do not have reliable established information about a specific motte castle at Hisland in Shropshire with the designation reference provided. Rather than produce potentially inaccurate content about this particular site, I should acknowledge that while motte and bailey castles are well documented in Shropshire from the Norman period onwards, I cannot verify the details of this individual monument with sufficient confidence to write with the scholarly precision your instructions require. If you have access to the official NHLE entry or local archaeological records, those sources would provide the authoritative description appropriate for a heritage website.
Motte castle at Hisland is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1013497. View the official record →
I do not have reliable established information about a specific motte castle at Hisland in Shropshire with the designation reference provided.
Motte castle at Hisland 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 1013497.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bromwich Park moated site and formal garden remains (2.1 km), Motte castle adjacent to St Michael's Church (3.2 km), Knockin Castle: a motte and bailey castle immediately east of St Mary's Church (5.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Motte castle at Hisland'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.
Motte castle at Hisland stands on Permian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.