Culverhay Castle

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Earthworks from Culverhay Castle

Culverhay Castle , also Englishcombe Castle , is an abandoned castle in the village of Englishcombe in the English county of Bath and North East Somerset .

Details

Culverhay Castle was built as a ring mill in the village of Englishcombe. The moat and earth wall of the ring works, the former up to 1.5 meters deep, lie east of the parish church. In the first half of the 13th century the castle was a round Donjon of stone and a lower curtain wall added, along with one or two other buildings within the ring work. A deer park was probably also created around the castle.

Estimates of the construction period of the original complex range from the end of the 11th century to the beginning of the 13th century.

In 1938 excavations were carried out by Nigel Pounds on the castle grounds ; today the complex is a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Culverhay Castle . Historic England, Pastscape. English Heritage. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
  2. ^ Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 978-0-86183-278-1 . P. 37.
  3. ↑ Culverhay Castle, Englishcombe . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved March 3, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 58.7 "  N , 2 ° 24 ′ 18"  W.