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Tower keep castle on Little Camp Hill is a Norman castle situated in Gloucestershire. The site preserves earthwork remains of a motte-and-bailey fortification, a typical defensive structure of the post-Conquest period. The castle dates to the 11th or 12th century and represents an important example of early Norman military architecture in the region. The monument's physical remains consist of the characteristic raised mound and surrounding ditch system that would have originally supported timber or stone fortifications.
Tower keep castle on Little Camp Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017372. View the official record →
Tower keep castle on Little Camp Hill is a Norman castle situated in Gloucestershire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017372.
Tower keep castle on Little Camp 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 1017372.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Camp Hill promontory fort and Romano-British temple complex (0.3 km), Village cross at Aylburton (0.7 km), Village cross at Lydney (1.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Tower keep castle on Little Camp 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.
Tower keep castle on Little Camp Hill stands on Dinantian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.