Middleton Mount

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Middleton Mount

Middleton Mount , also Middleton Motte or Middleton Castle , is a ruined castle in the village of Middleton in the English county of Norfolk .

Details

Middleton Mount was a moth that was built in Norman times. The mound has a diameter of 49 meters and is protected by an 11 meter wide trench . The sickle-shaped courtyard and three rectangular, medieval enclosures of unknown date lie along the mound. The castle was built by the Normans on an earlier Anglo-Saxon estate, a common practice after the Norman conquest of England .

Excavations were carried out on the site in 1987 before the surrounding area, including the enclosures, was converted into a residential area. In 2006 the Norfolk Archaeological Trust bought the ruined castle, which is now a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2002, ISBN 0-85115-782-3 , pp. 160 (English, 384 p., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
  2. ↑ a b c d NHER Number: 3394. Middleton Mount, a motte and bailey castle . Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Norfolk County Council. Retrieved July 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ Oliver Hamilton Creighton: Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England . In: Studies in the Archeology of Medieval Europe. tape 18 . Equinox Publishing Ltd., London 2004, ISBN 1-904768-67-9 , pp. 70–71 (English, 270 p., Limited preview in Google Book Search).
  4. ↑ Middleton Mount . Norfolk Archaeological Trust. Retrieved July 19, 2016.

literature

  • T. Ashwin: Middleton Mount - Excavations in and around the Eastern Bailey of Middleton Castle in Norfolk Archeology . Issue 43 (3), 2001. pp. 645-656.

Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 11.3 "  N , 0 ° 27 ′ 22.7"  E