What is recorded here

Cadbury Castle is an Iron Age hill fort above South Cadbury, not a stone castle, and its four earth ramparts still rise beside the shadow of Glastonbury Tor. The reoccupation of the fort in the mid-fifth century may have required a battle-leader, perhaps Arthur, while local tradition still imagines him sleeping beneath the plateau until Britain needs him. Walking its worn crest feels like entering a story that has been waiting for people to remember it.

A named place photographed at this map point in Somerset.

Cadbury Castle in Somerset was likely built by the Normans in the 12th century, possibly by the de Courcy family. It is important as a well-preserved example of a motte-and-bailey castle and as a site linked to the historical conflict between the Crown and local lords during the medieval period.