Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Entrance to Stansted Mountfitchet Castle

Stansted Mountfitchet Castle , also called Mountfitchet Castle , is a Norman ringwork and moth in Stansted Mountfitchet in the English county of Essex . Today the site is a living history museum complete with the cattle that the people kept when the castle was used.

history

Reconstructed interior of the castle

The castle was built by the Mountfitchet family after the Norman conquest of England . The core castle was built on an elevation with a ring work as a defense system; their base was about 0.2 hectares. There was also an outer bailey , which enclosed about 0.4 hectares and was a little lower. Inside the ring work there was a donjon in a small, round enclosure.

In the 1980s, the castle was rebuilt as a tourist attraction. Even if efforts were made to protect the original parts of the castle during the reconstruction, the renovation and the large number of visitors that followed damaged the site.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 1995. ISBN 978-0-851157-82-5 . P. 74.
↑ ^a ^b Stansted Mountfitchet. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex . Volume 1: North West . 1916. pp. 275-280. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
^ Marion Blockley, Philippe Planel (editor), Peter G. Stone (editor): The Constructed Past: Experimental Archeology, Education and the Public . Chapter: Archaeological Reconstruction and the Community in the UK . Routledge, London 1999. ISBN 978-0-203205-82-2 . P. 17.

51.9029 0.2007Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 10.4 ″ N , 0 ° 12 ′ 2.5 ″ E

[Pettifer74-1] A ^b Adrian Pettifer: English Castles: A Guide by Counties . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 1995. ISBN 978-0-851157-82-5 . P. 74.

[BHO-2] Stansted Mountfitchet. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex . Volume 1: North West . 1916. pp. 275-280. Retrieved October 17, 2016.

[Blockley17-3] Marion Blockley, Philippe Planel (editor), Peter G. Stone (editor): The Constructed Past: Experimental Archeology, Education and the Public . Chapter: Archaeological Reconstruction and the Community in the UK . Routledge, London 1999. ISBN 978-0-203205-82-2 . P. 17.