What is recorded here

Motte and Bailey is a castle in Lancaster, England. Perhaps its name is the shape, a high mound beside a flat yard, the whole structure written in the land before stone. Maybe children ran the bailey at dusk while the motte kept its shadow long across the grass. Imagine the place still speaking in parts, each word visible, the castle reduced to its two living rooms.

Motte and Bailey is shown as a castle on the public map of Lancaster. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Motte and Bailey castles were typically built by Norman lords in the 11th and 12th centuries as strategic military and administrative centres following the Norman Conquest of England. They are important as they represent an early and widespread form of medieval fortification.

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