York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Clifford's Tower still rises above York, but the ground beneath it has swallowed a Romano-British fort-vicus and an Anglian cemetery before it caught fire and fell. The castle changed shape twice, first as a motte and bailey, then as a tower keep, while older lives stayed buried under its feet. What is missing is not empty; it is waiting to be remembered.

The National Heritage List for England records York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery 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.

York Castle was originally built by William the Conqueror's followers, with the motte and bailey constructed shortly after the Norman Conquest in 1068, and later replaced by a stone tower keep, Clifford's Tower, under orders from King Henry III in the 13th century. It is important as a key medieval stronghold in northern England and as a site with significant earlier Roman and Anglo-Saxon remains, reflecting York's long and layered history.

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