What is recorded here

Cardinham Castle in Cornwall, England, is a scheduled monument, though the name is a later invention and the earthwork may predate castle building altogether. A steep mound and shallow ditch still mark the field, but no wall, gate or tower survives to explain who climbed them or why. The shape suggests exclusion, perhaps a family yard, a military post or a boundary dispute made flesh. Whatever it was, it stopped being built and became landscape, leaving only the slope to remember the decision that made it.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte and bailey castle called Cardinham 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.

Built in the late 11th or early 12th century, likely by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066, Cardinham Castle is remembered as an example of early medieval military architecture and as a strategic stronghold in the control of south-western England.

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