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Oliver's Battery is a motte and bailey castle located at Old Basing in Hampshire, England. The earthwork comprises a substantial mound with a surrounding ditch, typical of Norman military architecture from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The site stands within the wider context of Old Basing, which developed as a significant settlement during the medieval period. The battery represents an important example of early Norman defensive engineering, constructed to command the local landscape and protect strategic interests in the region.
Oliver's Battery: a motte and bailey castle at Old Basing is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010866. View the official record →
Oliver's Battery is a motte and bailey castle located at Old Basing in Hampshire, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010866.
Oliver's Battery: a motte and bailey castle at Old Basing 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 1010866.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Pyotts Hill entrenchment (1 km), Basing House and the Grange Field (1.1 km), Bowl barrow 30m south of Burrough Close (2.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Oliver's Battery: a motte and bailey castle at Old Basing'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.
Oliver's Battery: a motte and bailey castle at Old Basing stands on Lambeth Group, bedrock that formed in the Paleocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.