What is recorded here

Motte Castle 57m south-west of Church of St Mary Magdalene is a scheduled monument in Forest of Dean, England, where a buried ridge may still tilt beneath the grass. It stands close enough to the church that a person could have walked from one edge of power to the other without leaving the valley. The castle has no visible hall or gate in the facts supplied, but its name suggests a wooden tower, a keep or a defensive mound that someone built before the church became the centre of local life.

The National Heritage List for England records Motte Castle 57m south-west of Church of St Mary Magdalene 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, Motte Castle is thought to have been constructed by a Norman lord following the conquest of 1066. It is important as a rare surviving example of early medieval military architecture in the region.

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