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Castle

Castle, motte and bailey

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Castle rises as a steep oval mound above low-lying pasture in Glebe, its flat top still broad enough for footsteps and its bailey preserved as a shallow square platform beside it. The wide faded ditch around them has partly filled with soil and memory, but the shape remains clear: a small defensive place built to be seen from the open land.
On a WSW-facing slope in low-lying pasture, with extensive views in all directions. A small, oval, steep-sided, earthen mound (H 4-6m; dims. at base c. 26m ENE-WSW; c. 21m NNW-SSE) with a relatively flat-topped summit (c. 20m ENE-WSW; c. 13m NNW-SSE). A shallow fosse (Wth 4.7m; D 0.5m) separates the motte from the bailey, which is to the NE. The bailey comprises a low, roughly square platform (11m NE-SW; 11m NW-SE) defined by a scarp (H 0.2-0.75m). The motte and bailey are encircled by a largely infilled, wide, shallow fosse (Wth 10.1m; max. D 1m). Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 March 2012

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