What is recorded here

Cherry Hill still rises beside the cathedral, hiding the motte and bailey that William I raised in 1070 to break Hereward the Wake and subdue the Isle of Ely. Bishop Nigel refortified it in 1140, but King Stephen took it, and later conflicts helped erase the stones. Excavations in 2002 recovered everyday Norman clayware and bronze tools from the Viking-to-Norman transition, now displayed in Ely Museum. The mound remains, waiting for people to imagine the hands that shaped it.

Ely Castle is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of East Cambridgeshire. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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