What is recorded here

Beacon Hill motte castle stands in Wollaston, North Northamptonshire, as a conical mound over six metres high with a broad flat summit. Excavations revealed a destroyed 12th-century stone castle and traces of an earlier structure beneath it. A post mill later occupied the same mound from the 13th to 15th centuries, turning martial ground into a working landscape. The castle vanished quickly, but the hill kept shaping village life long after its walls disappeared.

The National Heritage List for England records Beacon Hill motte castle as a scheduled monument. The saved point comes from the centre supplied by the official record. Listing does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Beacon Hill motte castle was built in the 12th century, likely by a Norman lord as part of the post-Conquest military and administrative expansion in England. It is remembered as an example of early medieval fortification and is protected as a scheduled monument due to its historical and archaeological significance.

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