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The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill

Scheduled monument

What is recorded here

Mosaic fact: The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill is a Norman earthwork fortification in Northamptonshire, recorded as a scheduled monument. It still shows the circular or oval bank and ditch that defined a small military household, while the wider landscape kept changing around it. That is enough to picture the place: a made boundary on open ground, built to control access and be seen from a distance. The rest is interpretation, memory and the risk of inventing life that never happened.
The National Heritage List for England records The Castle ringwork, Berry Hill 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.

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