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Castle Hill Motte & Baileys

Archaeological place

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Castle Hill Motte & Baileys stands in Harborough, England, preserving the buried outline of a defensive hilltop where earth was shaped into a fortress before stone walls became common. The mound and surrounding ditches suggest people climbed high ground to watch valleys, protect herds, or defy neighbours. That much is visible in the land itself. The rest belongs to imagination, since no named builder, date, or event survives in the facts provided.
Castle Hill Motte & Baileys is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Harborough. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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