Ballands Castle

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Ballands Castle is an Outbound castle near the village Penselwood in the English county of Somerset .

history

Ballands Castle was a moth believed to have been built after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The castle was located near the contemporary Cockroad Wood Castle and Castle Orchard and was believed to be part of a system of fortifications to control the area.

Today the moth is about 5 meters high and up to 9 meters wide. The outer bailey is south of it; Motte and outer bailey are surrounded by moats .

Today the castle site is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Oliver Hamilton Creighton: Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England . Equinox, London 2005. ISBN 978-1-904768-67-8 . P. 62.
  2. ↑ a b Balland's Castle, Penselwood . Somerset County Historic Environmental Record. ( Memento of April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Balland's Castle . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 40.1 ″  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 14.4 ″  W.