Wimble Toot Castle

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Wimble Toot

Wimble Toot Castle is a suspected Outbound hilltop castle near the village Babcary in the English county of Somerset .

Details

The presumed castle was built between 1067 and 1069. Today only a circular earthwork , 27.47 meters in diameter and 2.74 meters high, with trenches on the northwest and southeast side, can be seen. The facility is located on a chain of hills above a stream that flows into the River Cary and the old Roman road Fosse Way .

Opinions about the original purpose of the facility have changed over the years. Originally they were thought to be a barrow from the Bronze Age for the burial of the dead or a windmill hill . According to the latest scientific research, however, it is believed that it is the remains of a moth that was built after the Norman conquest of England .

Wimble Toot Castle was therefore intended to protect the River Cary, especially the 30 km long, navigable stretch of the river between this castle and Down End Castle , which was tactically important for the Normans at the time . It also served to protect the nearby Ilchester settlement in conjunction with the fortified mansion in the village of Sock Dennis . The castle was probably built by a local Norman lord, Robert de Conteville .

Today the complex is considered a Scheduled Monument .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Staurt Prior: The Norman Art of War: a Few Well-Positioned Castles . Tempus, Stroud 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3651-1 . P. 71. [1] Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Staurt Prior: The Norman Art of War: a Few Well-Positioned Castles . Tempus, Stroud 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3651-1 . S. 92. [2] Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Wimble Toot . Pastscape. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Staurt Prior: The Norman Art of War: a Few Well-Positioned Castles . Tempus, Stroud 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3651-1 . S. 88. [3] Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  5. ↑ Staurt Prior: The Norman Art of War: a Few Well-Positioned Castles . Tempus, Stroud 2006. ISBN 0-7524-3651-1 . P. 93. [4] Retrieved December 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Wimble Toot, Babcary . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved December 13, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 58.9 "  N , 2 ° 37 ′ 44.8"  W.