Castle batch

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Castle Batch estate

Castle Batch is an Outbound castle in the village of Worle over the city Weston-super-Mare in English administrative county North Somerset .

History and construction

The Norman nobleman Walter von Douai had the moth erected between the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and 1086. It was built on a chain of hills overlooking the surrounding landscape and contained a mound that is still 3 meters high and 42 meters in diameter. A moat that is up to 10 meters wide surrounds it. The entrance was probably on the north side of the Motte. A possible outer bailey around the moth was also identified. Castle Batch has been characterized as a typical moth, but the mound has a slight indentation in the middle, which is why the archaeologist Stuart Prior thinks it is a ringwork.

Around 1200 the property belonged to William de Courtney and in 1303 to John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp .

today

Today the site forms part of the local parkland and is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Castle Batch . In: Extract from English Heritage's Record of Scheduled Monuments . Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b c d Stuart Prior: The Norman Art of War: a Few Well-Positioned Castles . Tempus, Stroud 2006. ISBN 0-752436-51-1 . P. 71.
  3. ↑ a b YCCCART 2011 / Y9: North Somerset HER 2011/205, Castle Batch, Worle . Yatton, Congresbury, Claverham and Cleeve Archaeological Research Team. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
  4. ^ Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 978-0-86183-278-1 . Pp. 31-32.
  5. ↑ Castle Batch, Worle . Gatehouse. Retrieved February 11, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 '7.7 "  N , 2 ° 55' 5.5"  W.