Bledisloe Tump

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Bledisloe Tump is an Outbound castle in the village Awre in the English county of Gloucestershire .

The first castle on this site was built in the 11th or early 12th century and was a simple wooden building. The location was chosen because there is a natural elevation over the Severn . A later mound , 18 meters wide and 2.1 meters high, was also erected there, and it is believed that this could have been a never completed moth . It is possible that construction began during the anarchic period in the 12th century, and there is a theory that the castle was destroyed by King Henry II's troops after a conflict as part of a larger Gloucestershire castle demolition operation in the 1150s could be.

The area later served as the meeting point of the Harde von Blediloe and another theory assumes that the mound was specially built for these meetings. A mansion was later built on this site and the remaining earthworks were finally destroyed in the 1970s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bledisloe Tump . Historic England - Pastscape. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
  2. ^ A b John M. Steane: The Archeology of Medieval England and Wales Volume 1985, Part 2. Croom Helm, Beckenhem 1985. ISBN 978-0-7099-2385-5 . P. 26.
  3. ^ Emilie Amt: The Accession of Henry II in England: royal government restored, 1149-1159. Boydell Press, Woodbridge 1993. ISBN 978-0-85115-348-3 . P. 44.
  4. ↑ Bledisloe Tump, Awre . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 14, 2015.

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 '16 "  N , 2 ° 27' 36"  W.