What is recorded here

Motte and bailey castle 100m and 200m south of St Mary's School is a scheduled Norman fortification in Newcastle-under-Lyme, built in the late eleventh or twelfth century to project feudal power and military control across Staffordshire. Its earthworks still mark the boundary between conquest and settlement, even if the timber halls and iron gates have long since rotted into soil. Children running past St Mary's School may never know they are playing above the bones of a weapon, but the ground remembers the shape of the hand that threw it.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte and bailey castle 100m and 200m south of St Mary's School 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 or military commander following the Norman Conquest, the castle is important as a surviving example of early medieval military architecture and the strategic use of motte-and-bailey forts in the post-Conquest period.

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