What is recorded here

Hallaton motte and bailey castle rises as a huge conical mound beside a horseshoe shaped enclosure, marking one of the finest surviving examples of its kind in Leicestershire. The mound reached seven and a half metres above its ditch, while the bailey stretched about sixty by thirty metres with a clear entrance gap on the north-west. Railway engineers later cut shafts into the mound and found layers of clay, gravel, burnt material, bone, leather and pottery, hinting that the castle served as an administrative centre for a local estate.

The National Heritage List for England records Hallaton motte and bailey 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.

Hallaton motte and bailey castle was built in the 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066. It is important as a well-preserved example of a medieval fortification and as evidence of the strategic settlement patterns in the region during the early medieval period.

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