FitzHarris Castle

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Floor plan of FitzHarris Castle

FitzHarris Castle is an abandoned castle near Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire (now Oxfordshire ).

history

FitzHarris Castle was built between 1071 and 1084, shortly after the Norman conquest of England , presumably at the behest of a Norman knight named Owen . The mound of the moth has a footprint of 23.74 × 9.7 meters and was protected by a watercourse that flowed around the mound and thus formed a moat . In the following years the castle was a mansion completed, the FitzHarry's called a Donjon remained standing on the mound to 1247, probably for defensive purposes.

The castle ruins are now owned by the local authorities, but English Heritage has placed them in the Heritage-at-Risk register due to the high number of visitors . It is considered a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AE Preston: A Moated Mound at Abingdon, Berks. in The Berkshire Archaeological Journal . No. 38, p. 168.
  2. ↑ AE Preston: A Moated Mound at Abingdon, Berks. in The Berkshire Archaeological Journal . No. 38, p. 167.
  3. ↑ AE Preston: A Moated Mound at Abingdon, Berks. in The Berkshire Archaeological Journal . No. 38. pp. 168-169.
  4. ^ Heritage At Risk Register 2010 - South East . English Heritage. P. 60. Retrieved April 6, 2016.
  5. ↑ Fitzharris, Abingdon . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved April 6, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 26.8 "  N , 1 ° 17 ′ 2.8"  W.