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A History of the County of Somerset
… from a wide area. The hill was scarped to form an oval motte, with an upper bailey on the south-east and a lower …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… cent.); Mottesfount and Mottson (xvi cent.); Motsonne and Motte Fount (xvii cent.). The parish of Mottisfbnt, covering …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the site was let for pasture. 111 The castle comprises a motte and two baileys. On the motte are the foundations of a small rectangular stone keep …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… 19 Norwood castle north of Dean Farm is possibly a Norman motte-and-bailey site. 20 In the early 14th century demesne …
A History of the County of Oxford
… a round barrow; a suggestion that it might have been the motte of a very small castle, the church standing in the …
A History of the County of Hertford
… later for a mount and bailey castle, the mount or 'motte' standing about 25 ft. high above the bottom of the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… the Mount which stands in Preshute and later formed the motte of Marlborough Castle, built by 1070, may have given … remains are the Neolithic mound which later formed the motte of Marlborough Castle, the Manton bowlbarrow which … palisade and drawbridge, constructed a ring wall round the motte, and built a barbican in front of the keep to …
A History of the County of York North Riding
… nor when it became a ruin. There seems to have been a 'motte,' with evidence possibly of a masonry keep on it and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… North of the church are the well-preserved earthworks of a motte and bailey type of Norman castle. 1 Seckington is the …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… formed a street running north-east and south-west. 27 A motte was raised, presumably in the late 11th century or the … c. 1972 30 but no masonry of a keep or a house on the motte is in situ, and how long a building on it may have been … of water much wider than the moat still lay around the motte on the east in 1992 but on the west the moat was dry. …