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Burton Castle (site of)

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Burton Castle (site of)
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Burton Castle has vanished from human memory, leaving only a coordinate in North Yorkshire and a shape on a public map. The stones may have fed other buildings or sunk into soil, but the absence itself becomes a room where imagination enters without permission. Forgetting is not loss; it is a door opened both ways.
Burton Castle (site of) is shown as a castle on the public map of North Yorkshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Burton Castle was a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, likely built in the 12th century, and held by the de Burgh family. It is remembered as an example of early medieval military architecture in North Yorkshire.

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