What is recorded here

Oldcastle Twt is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle in Herefordshire, built shortly after the Conquest to project military control along the Welsh border. Its earthen mound still rises from the land, a brute shape of soil and purpose that outlasted the wooden defences which once ringed it. The castle spoke a simple language: this ground is taken, this ground is watched.

The National Heritage List for England records Oldcastle Twt 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.

Oldcastle Twt is a 13th-century tower house built by the de Lacy family in the Scottish Borders. It is remembered as a key defensive structure during the turbulent Anglo-Scottish border conflicts.

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