What is recorded here

Bury Mount is a steep, 70-metre-wide earth mound built by the Crown in the late 11th century to control Towcester, sitting inside the old Roman town of Lactodorum. Prince Rupert altered its southern banks during the Civil War, proving the earth remained a military tool centuries after the Normans first shaped it. Trees and dense undergrowth now hide the ditch and bridge remains, turning a royal strongpoint into a green mystery where Roman, medieval and civil war layers still press against one another.

The National Heritage List for England records Bury Mount 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.

Bury Mount motte castle was built in the 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066. It is important as a scheduled monument, reflecting the strategic military and administrative use of motte-and-bailey castles in the medieval period.

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