What is recorded here

Thirteen towers pierce the curtain wall of Framlingham Castle, where Roger Bigod II built a late twelfth-century fortress that Henry VIII later rebuilt against coastal threats. The defensive mere still floods the base of those stones, while hidden town ditches and an Anglo-Saxon cemetery prove that people lived, buried their dead and defended this exact ground long before the Norman stone rose.

The National Heritage List for England records Framlingham Castle and its associated landscape including the mere, town ditch and Anglo-Saxon cemetery 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.

Framlingham Castle was built by Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, in the late 12th century, and it later served as the seat of the powerful De Valognes family. The castle and its surrounding landscape, including an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, are important for their historical and archaeological significance, reflecting continuous occupation and strategic importance from the Anglo-Saxon period through the medieval era.

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